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Is cark a Scrabble word?

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

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Is cark a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3A1R1K5

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4-letter words (2 found)

CARK,RACK,

3-letter words (3 found)

ARC,ARK,CAR,

2-letter words (2 found)

AR,KA,

You can make 7 words from cark according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cark

cark acrk crak rcak arck rack cakr ackr ckar kcar akcr kacr crka rcka ckra kcra rkca krca arkc rakc akrc karc rkac krac

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

Definitions and meaning of cark

cark

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑː(ɹ)k/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English carken, also charken (to be anxious, worry; to load (sth.); to bear (crops)), from Old Northern French carquier (to load, worry), from Latin carricāre (to load). Compare Old French chargier (to load); thus a doublet of charge.

Verb

cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
  2. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
    • 1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, Comment on 2 Timothy 2: 22:
      Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously.

Noun

cark (countable and uncountable, plural carks)

  1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
  2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
Descendants
  • Welsh: carc

Etymology 2

From caulk.

Verb

cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.

See also

  • cark it

References

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

Anagrams

  • RACK, rack

Albanian

Etymology

Variant of thark (enclosure).

Noun

cark m

  1. Alternative form of cak

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English carken. See cark above.

Pronunciation

  • (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈkɑrk/

Noun

cark (plural carks)

  1. (archaic) worry, anxiety

Verb

cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carkin, simple past carkt, past participle carkt)

  1. (archaic) To worry or be anxious.

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