WOKE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. WOKE 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 WOKE?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WOKE is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WOKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How WOKE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WOKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 20,423.
What does WOKE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Alert to social injustice, especially about race.
Woke in this sense came out of African American English, where it meant staying alert to danger, and it was in print by 1962. It was adopted as praise and turned into an insult within about a decade.
How WOKE is used
After the verb. Also the past tense of wake.
- The word woke was praise before it was an insult.
- Woke in that sense was in print by 1962.
- A woke position in one decade is ordinary in the next.
- Nobody who is called woke uses the word about themselves now.
- The adjective woke came out of African American English.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WOKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WOKE
3 longer words begin with WOKE.
Words ending in WOKE
3 words end in WOKE. Useful as a back hook: play WOKE onto a word already on the board.
Words with WOKE inside
3 words contain WOKE in the middle. Words that start with WOKE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WOKE
Common questions about WOKE
- Is WOKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WOKE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WOKE worth?
- WOKE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WOKE mean?
- Alert to social injustice, especially about race.
- What letters can be added to WOKE?
- WOKE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WOKE:
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