UNYOKE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. UNYOKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UNYOKE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UNYOKE is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UNYOKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UNYOKE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in UNYOKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 258,692.
What does UNYOKE mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To take the yoke off an ox or other draught animal, or to set something free.
To unyoke a team is to lift the wooden yoke from its neck at the end of the day's work. The verb is mostly met in farming accounts and in older or poetic writing, where it can also mean to free someone from a burden. Its opposite is yoke, to harness the animals before the plough or cart.
How UNYOKE is used
Mostly in rural description, older prose and figurative writing.
- At dusk the farmer would unyoke the oxen and lead them to water.
- They stopped at the ford to unyoke the weary team.
- In the poem the speaker longs to unyoke himself from toil.
- The boy learned to unyoke a plough ox before he could read.
- Once we unyoke the cart, the horses may graze.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UNYOKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UNYOKE
2 longer words begin with UNYOKE.
Shorter words from the letters in UNYOKE
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Common questions about UNYOKE
- Is UNYOKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UNYOKE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UNYOKE worth?
- UNYOKE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UNYOKE mean?
- To take the yoke off an ox or other draught animal, or to set something free.
- What letters can be added to UNYOKE?
- UNYOKE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of UNYOKE:
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