ZINKE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 18 points
It depends on the list you play by. ZINKE 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 18 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ZINKE?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ZINKE is to know. It scores 18 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ZINKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ZINKE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ZINKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| z | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 116,184.
What does ZINKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
musichistorical
An early wind instrument with a curved wooden body and a cup-shaped mouthpiece, played like a trumpet.
The zinke was widely used in church and court music from the Renaissance into the early Baroque period, prized for a tone that could blend with voices. It fell out of general use by the eighteenth century and survives mainly in historically informed early-music performance.
How ZINKE is used
Specialist term; found in music history writing and among early-music performers.
- The ensemble hired a player skilled on the zinke.
- A zinke sits somewhere between a trumpet and a recorder in sound.
- The museum displays a well-preserved seventeenth-century zinke.
- Composers of the period often paired the zinke with trombones.
- Learning the zinke requires a very different embouchure from a modern trumpet.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ZINKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ZINKE
4 longer words begin with ZINKE.
Shorter words from the letters in ZINKE
Common questions about ZINKE
- Is ZINKE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ZINKE is not in it.
- How many points is ZINKE worth?
- ZINKE is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ZINKE mean?
- An early wind instrument with a curved wooden body and a cup-shaped mouthpiece, played like a trumpet.
- What letters can be added to ZINKE?
- ZINKE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ZINKE:
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