WAULK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. WAULK is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept WAULK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WAULK is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WAULK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
waulksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WAULK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in WAULK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does WAULK mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scots
To full cloth by soaking, beating and trampling it, a step that shrinks and thickens the fabric.
People who waulk cloth work newly woven tweed while it is still loose and thin, pounding it rhythmically in a tub of hot water and soap until the fibres mat together into a tighter, warmer weave. The process is best known from the Outer Hebrides, where groups sang waulking songs to keep the beating in time as the cloth passed from hand to hand around the table. Unlike ordinary washing, to waulk cloth is to change its structure, not just clean it, and the same word is also spelled wauk.
How WAULK is used
Now mostly a historical or craft term for the Scottish and Hebridean tradition of finishing woven tweed by hand.
- Women used to waulk the newly woven tweed by hand around a long table.
- The song kept everyone in rhythm as they would waulk the cloth together.
- A museum display explained how crofters would waulk wool to make it warmer.
- It could take hours to waulk a single length of cloth properly.
- Modern mills waulk very little cloth by hand, leaving it mostly to festivals and demonstrations.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WAULK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WAULK
7 longer words begin with WAULK.
Shorter words from the letters in WAULK
Common questions about WAULK
- Is WAULK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and WAULK is not in it.
- How many points is WAULK worth?
- WAULK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WAULK mean?
- To full cloth by soaking, beating and trampling it, a step that shrinks and thickens the fabric.
- What letters can be added to WAULK?
- WAULK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of WAULK:
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