WACKE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. WACKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WACKE?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WACKE is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WACKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WACKE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WACKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does WACKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A dark, poorly sorted sandstone containing a mixture of clay, feldspar and small rock fragments.
Wacke is a term geologists use for a coarse, muddy sandstone that formed quickly, so that it never had time to sort its grains the way cleaner sandstones do. The word comes from German mining vocabulary and is most familiar today as part of the compound greywacke, though wacke also appears alone in geological classification. Because wacke contains a high proportion of fine clay matrix along with larger grains, it behaves differently from clean sandstone and is treated as a separate rock category. Geologists identify wacke in the field by its dark, dirty appearance and its poorly sorted mixture of particle sizes.
How WACKE is used
A technical term used mainly in petrology and in descriptions of sedimentary rock.
- The outcrop was made of dark wacke rather than clean sandstone.
- Geologists classify wacke by the proportion of clay matrix it contains.
- The old quarry produced blocks of wacke used in local walls.
- Under the microscope, the wacke showed angular fragments in a muddy base.
- The report described the hillside as layered wacke and shale.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WACKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WACKE
5 longer words begin with WACKE.
Words ending in WACKE
2 words end in WACKE. Useful as a back hook: play WACKE onto a word already on the board.
Words with WACKE inside
8 words contain WACKE in the middle. Words that start with WACKE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WACKE
Common questions about WACKE
- Is WACKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WACKE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WACKE worth?
- WACKE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WACKE mean?
- A dark, poorly sorted sandstone containing a mixture of clay, feldspar and small rock fragments.
- What letters can be added to WACKE?
- WACKE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WACKE:
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