TWANK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. TWANK is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TWANK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TWANK is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TWANK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TWANK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TWANK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does TWANK mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicslang
An old slang term, now obsolete, for a woman who sold sexual favours.
Twank turns up in seventeenth and eighteenth century slang glossaries alongside other now-forgotten terms of the same period, most of which have long dropped out of use entirely. Modern dictionaries record twank chiefly as a historical curiosity, cited to show how earlier slang worked rather than as a word anyone would use today.
How TWANK is used
Obsolete; met only in historical dictionaries of old slang, never in current writing.
- The old glossary lists twank among dozens of forgotten terms.
- A historian noted that twank had vanished from slang by 1800.
- The word twank appears only in specialist dictionaries now.
- Few readers today would recognise twank without a footnote.
- The pamphlet used twank in a way no modern speaker would.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TWANK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with TWANK
7 longer words begin with TWANK.
Shorter words from the letters in TWANK
Common questions about TWANK
- Is TWANK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TWANK is not in it.
- How many points is TWANK worth?
- TWANK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TWANK mean?
- An old slang term, now obsolete, for a woman who sold sexual favours.
- What letters can be added to TWANK?
- TWANK takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TWANK:
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