WANK is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 11 points
Yes for Scrabble. WANK is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept WANK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WANK is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WANK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WANK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WANK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 36,308.
What does WANK mean in Scrabble?
verb
offensiveBritish
To masturbate — a vulgar British word for it.
Wank is British and its origin is genuinely unknown, which is common for words that stayed out of print for a century. The derived noun for a contemptible person is now heard far more often than the verb, and it has weakened in the process: it is used in British broadcasting after a watershed where the verb still is not.
How WANK is used
Offensive. Chiefly British; the derived noun is milder.
- Dictionaries record wank from the 1940s and no earlier.
- The origin of wank is unknown, like most words kept out of print.
- British broadcasters treat wank and its derived noun differently.
- The noun built on wank is heard more often than the verb.
- A word like wank leaves almost no written trace before it is respectable.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WANK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WANK
11 longer words begin with WANK.
Words ending in WANK
2 words end in WANK. Useful as a back hook: play WANK onto a word already on the board.
Words with WANK inside
Showing 24 of 25 words that contain WANK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WANK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WANK
Common questions about WANK
- Is WANK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WANK is not in it.
- How many points is WANK worth?
- WANK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WANK mean?
- To masturbate — a vulgar British word for it.
- What letters can be added to WANK?
- WANK takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WANK:
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