UNKED is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. UNKED 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept UNKED?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNKED is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNKED
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How UNKED scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UNKED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about UNKED
- The letters of UNKED run in reverse alphabetical order.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does UNKED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Strange, uncouth or unfamiliar; also lonely or dreary — a regional dialect word.
Unked comes from English dialect glossaries, chiefly northern and midland, where it covers both an odd or uncouth look and a lonely, dreary feeling. It shares its territory with the spellings unket and unkid, all recorded as the same word. Old ballads use it of a strain or a sight that unsettles the listener rather than merely surprising them.
How UNKED is used
Dialect; met in English regional writing and older glossaries, not in everyday standard speech.
- Villagers called the old house unked and would not pass it after dark.
- The word unked covers both strange and lonely in the glossaries that record it.
- She found the empty lane unked once the last light left it.
- An unked sight in the ballad meant something the singer would rather not describe.
- Unked and unkid appear side by side in the same regional word lists.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNKED and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of UNKED
The 5 tiles of UNKED in a different order — 1 found.
Words ending in UNKED
20 words end in UNKED. Useful as a back hook: play UNKED onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in UNKED
Common questions about UNKED
- Is UNKED valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and UNKED is not in it.
- How many points is UNKED worth?
- UNKED is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNKED mean?
- Strange, uncouth or unfamiliar; also lonely or dreary — a regional dialect word.
- What letters can be added to UNKED?
- UNKED takes 5 hooks: 5 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UNKED:
Open UNKED in the Word Finder