WAKE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. WAKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAKE?
| 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: 55 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAKE is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAKE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WAKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What stands out about WAKE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does WAKE mean in Scrabble?
verb
To stop sleeping, or to rouse somebody from sleep.
Wake covers three things: rousing from sleep, the track a ship leaves and a gathering after a death. The first two are one word, and the third is a separate one about staying awake beside a body.
How WAKE is used
Woke or waked; woken. Also a noun in two senses.
- They wake at five whatever time they went to bed.
- The wake of the ferry rocked everything moored.
- A wake after a funeral is a separate word entirely.
- The word wake covers three things and two origins.
- Nothing will wake him before nine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WAKE
The 4 tiles of WAKE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with WAKE
Showing 24 of 26 words that begin with WAKE.
Words ending in WAKE
10 words end in WAKE. Useful as a back hook: play WAKE onto a word already on the board.
Words with WAKE inside
Showing 24 of 33 words that contain WAKE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WAKE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WAKE
Common questions about WAKE
- Is WAKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAKE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAKE worth?
- WAKE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAKE mean?
- To stop sleeping, or to rouse somebody from sleep.
- What letters can be added to WAKE?
- WAKE takes 5 hooks: 1 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WAKE:
Open WAKE in the Word Finder