1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Awk in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does awk mean? Is awk a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is awk worth? awk how many points in Words With Friends? What does awk mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for awk

See how to calculate how many points for awk.

Is awk a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word awk is a Scrabble US word. The word awk is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

A1W4K5

Is awk a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word awk is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

A1W4K5

Is awk a Words With Friends word?

The word awk is NOT a Words With Friends word.

Our tools

Valid words made from Awk

Jump to...

Results

3-letter words (2 found)

AWK,KAW,

2-letter words (2 found)

AW,KA,

You can make 4 words from awk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of awk

awk wak akw kaw wka kwa

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word awk. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in awk.

Definitions and meaning of awk

awk

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɔːk/
  • (US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɑːk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːk, -ɑːk
  • Homophone: auk

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse ǫfugr, ǫfigr, afigr (“turned backwards”) (whence Danish avet (“backwards”), Swedish avig (“turned backwards”)), from Proto-Germanic *abuhaz. Cognate with German äbich, Gothic 𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌺𐍃 (ibuks, “turned back”). Akin to Sanskrit अपाच् (apāc, “turned away”). Compare dialectal Danish ave (“to turn”), Dutch averechts (“opposite, backwards, contrary”), Icelandic öfga (“to reverse”).

Adjective

awk (comparative more awk, superlative most awk)

  1. (obsolete) Odd; out of order; perverse.
  2. (obsolete) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister.
  3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Clumsy in performance or manners; not dexterous; awkward.
    Synonym: unhandy
    • 1815 Sir Egerton Brydges, Archaica: Harvey's Four letters, and sonnets, touching Robert Greene; Pierce's supererogation; [and] New letter of notable contents. Brathwaite's Essays upon the five senses, From the private press of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, printed by T. Davison, p142
      […] whose wild and madbrain humour nothing fitteth so just, as the stalest dudgen or absurdest balductum, that they or their mates can invent in odd and awk speeches […]
  4. (US slang, of a situation) Awkward; uncomfortable.
Derived terms
  • awkly
  • awkness
  • awkward

Adverb

awk (comparative more awk, superlative most awk)

  1. (obsolete) Perversely; in the wrong way.

Etymology 2

From the initial letters of the surnames of its authors: Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan.

Proper noun

awk

  1. (computer languages) A Unix scripting language for text processing, or the command line interface itself.

References

  • “awk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Kaw, Kwa, kaw

Source: wiktionary.org