YIKE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 11 points
It depends on the list you play by. YIKE 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 11 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept YIKE?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YIKE is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YIKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YIKE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in YIKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does YIKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Australianinformal
A noisy quarrel or a brief scuffle.
Yike belongs to Australian speech and to sports reporting above all, where it names the shoving match that breaks out after a hard tackle and is over before anybody is hurt. The word does two jobs at once: it reports the event and dismisses it, so calling something a yike is a way of saying that nobody need take it seriously.
How YIKE is used
Countable: a yike, two yikes. Also a verb — to yike is to squabble noisily.
- There was a yike in the goal square and both sides were spoken to.
- The pair had a yike at training and shook hands afterwards.
- Every family gathering ends in a yike about the same thing.
- He watched the yike from the fence and said nothing.
- A yike between neighbours turned into a court case.
- They yiked over the bill for ten minutes.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YIKE and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with YIKE
2 longer words begin with YIKE.
Shorter words from the letters in YIKE
Common questions about YIKE
- Is YIKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YIKE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YIKE worth?
- YIKE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YIKE mean?
- A noisy quarrel or a brief scuffle.
- What letters can be added to YIKE?
- YIKE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of YIKE:
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