WAKER is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. WAKER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WAKER?
| 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 WAKER is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAKER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
wakersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAKER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WAKER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does WAKER mean in Scrabble?
noun
rarehistorical
A person or thing that wakes someone, especially one formerly hired to rouse workers before alarm clocks were common.
Before cheap alarm clocks existed, a waker was often a person paid to go from house to house rousing factory or mill workers for an early shift, tapping on windows with a long stick. The word is also used more generally for anything, human or mechanical, that performs the simple act of waking another.
How WAKER is used
Rare today and mostly encountered in historical accounts of early industrial working life.
- The mill relied on a waker to knock on doors before dawn.
- A waker tapped his stick against the bedroom window.
- Modern phones have replaced the human waker entirely.
- She was known in the street as the local waker.
- The museum described the waker as a forgotten trade.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAKER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WAKER
The 5 tiles of WAKER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WAKER
2 longer words begin with WAKER.
Shorter words from the letters in WAKER
Common questions about WAKER
- Is WAKER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WAKER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WAKER worth?
- WAKER is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAKER mean?
- A person or thing that wakes someone, especially one formerly hired to rouse workers before alarm clocks were common.
- What letters can be added to WAKER?
- WAKER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WAKER:
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