YESKS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. YESKS 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 YESKS?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YESKS is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YESKS
No single letter turns YESKS into another word.
How YESKS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YESKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 522,830.
What does YESKS mean in Scrabble?
verb
dialectScots
To hiccup or belch, said of a single person; the form used for he, she or it of the Scots dialect verb yesk.
Grammatically, yesks marks the third person of a small Scots verb that most standard English speakers have never met. It is recorded mainly in glossaries of Scots vocabulary alongside the older, closely related word yex, which describes the same sudden reflex. The word belongs to a small set of dialect terms for ordinary bodily reflexes that stayed local to Scots speech and never spread into standard English.
How YESKS is used
A Scots dialect verb, met chiefly in dialect glossaries rather than in everyday standard speech.
- The old man yesks loudly whenever he eats too fast.
- In the glossary, yesks is given as the dialect word for a single hiccup.
- She laughed each time her brother yesks after supper.
- The word yesks survives mainly in collections of Scots dialect.
- He yesks and belches in the same breath, according to the old definition.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YESKS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of YESKS
The 5 tiles of YESKS in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in YESKS
Common questions about YESKS
- Is YESKS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and YESKS is not in it.
- How many points is YESKS worth?
- YESKS is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YESKS mean?
- To hiccup or belch, said of a single person; the form used for he, she or it of the Scots dialect verb yesk.
- What letters can be added to YESKS?
- No single letter can be added to YESKS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YESKS:
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