YOKEL is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. YOKEL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept YOKEL?
| 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: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful YOKEL is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for YOKEL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
yokelsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How YOKEL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in YOKEL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| y | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does YOKEL mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An unsophisticated person from the countryside, regarded as simple, awkward or old-fashioned.
City dwellers use yokel to mock someone they see as naive about modern life, out of fashion, or unfamiliar with urban ways, usually because that person comes from a rural area. The word carries a note of condescension, painting the rural person as slow-witted rather than simply unfamiliar with city customs. It is used almost exclusively by outsiders looking down on country life rather than by rural people describing themselves. A yokel in fiction is often a stock comic figure meant to be laughed at for being out of place in town.
How YOKEL is used
A somewhat disparaging informal term, generally used by city dwellers to mock country people as unsophisticated.
- The film mocked him as a wide-eyed yokel visiting the big city for the first time.
- She resented being treated like a yokel just because she grew up on a farm.
- The tourists were dismissed as yokel gawking at the skyscrapers.
- He played the yokel role for laughs, exaggerating his rural accent.
- Nobody in the village appreciated being called a yokel by the visiting reporter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of YOKEL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of YOKEL
The 5 tiles of YOKEL in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with YOKEL
3 longer words begin with YOKEL.
Shorter words from the letters in YOKEL
Common questions about YOKEL
- Is YOKEL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts YOKEL, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is YOKEL worth?
- YOKEL is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does YOKEL mean?
- An unsophisticated person from the countryside, regarded as simple, awkward or old-fashioned.
- What letters can be added to YOKEL?
- YOKEL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of YOKEL:
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