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Is chalk a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word chalk is a Scrabble US word. The word chalk is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is chalk a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word chalk is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

C3H4A1L1K5

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Yes. The word chalk is a Words With Friends word. The word chalk is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

CHALK,

4-letter words (5 found)

CALK,CHAL,HACK,LACK,LAKH,

3-letter words (5 found)

ACH,CAL,CHA,LAC,LAH,

2-letter words (6 found)

AH,AL,CH,HA,KA,LA,

You can make 17 words from chalk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of chalk

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Definitions and meaning of chalk

chalk

Alternative forms

  • chaulk (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English chalk, chalke, from Old English ċealc, from Proto-West Germanic *kalk, borrowed from Latin calx (“limestone”), again borrowed from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”). Doublet of calx and cauk.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɔːk/
  • (General American) enPR: chôk, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɔk/
  • (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑk/
    • Homophone: chock
  • Rhymes: -ɔːk

Noun

chalk (countable and uncountable, plural chalks)

  2. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
  4. (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
  6. Tailor's chalk.
  8. (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
  10. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
  12. (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
  14. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • calcium
  • calx

Descendants

  • → Hindi: चाक (cāk)
  • → Japanese: チャコ (chako), チョーク (chōku)
  • → Nepali: चक (cak)
  • → Swahili: chaki
  • → Swazi: íshóki
  • → Thai: ชอล์ก (chɔ́k)
  • → Tsonga: choko
  • → Tulu: ಚಾಕ್ (cākŭ)
  • → Yoruba: ṣọ́ọ̀kì

Translations

Verb

chalk (third-person singular simple present chalks, present participle chalking, simple past and past participle chalked)

  1. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
  2. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
  3. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
  4. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
  5. To manure (land) with chalk.
  6. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • chalk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • chalk (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • chalk (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • calke, chalke, schalk, schalke

Etymology

From Old English cealc, from Proto-West Germanic *kalk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃalk/
  • (Northern) IPA(key): /kalk/
  • Rhymes: -alk

Noun

chalk (uncountable)

  1. chalk

Descendants

  • English: chalk (see there for further descendants); cauk, cawk
  • Scots: cauk, cawk

References

  • “chalk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-14.

Source: wiktionary.org