How many points in Scrabble is elk worth? elk how many points in Words With Friends? What does elk mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is elk a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word elk is a Scrabble US word. The word elk is worth 7 points in Scrabble:
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Is elk a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word elk is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:
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Is elk a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word elk is a Words With Friends word. The word elk is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 4 words from elk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
elk lek ekl kel lke kle
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word elk. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in elk.
From Middle English elk, from Old English eolc, eolh (“elk”), from Proto-Germanic *elhaz, *algiz (“elk”) (compare Low German Elk, German Elch, Danish elg, Norwegian elg, Swedish älg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱis, *h₁ólḱis (compare Polish łoś, Russian лось (losʹ), Vedic Sanskrit ऋश्य (ṛ́śya, “antelope”), variant of *h₁elh₁én (compare German Elen, Tocharian A yäl, Tocharian B ylem (“gazelle”), Lithuanian élnis (“stag”), Armenian եղնիկ (eġnik, “doe, hind”)), from *h₁el- (“deer”). Doublet of Elhaz.
elk (plural elk or elks)
Elk originally referred to the moose. The wapiti was named elk by European explorers in North America, who thought it resembled the moose.
The word elk is now commonly used in the same way as the word caribou is used for the subspecies of the reindeer. The only difference here is that it refers only to a single subspecies, while caribou refers to several subspecies of the reindeer.
elk (plural elks)
From Dutch elk.
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From Middle Dutch elc. Compare English each, West Frisian elk, from Proto-Germanic *aiwô (“ever, always”) + *ga- + Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz.
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Compare Dutch elk, English each.
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Apparently from Old English eolh, though it is not found before 1475 and the phonetic development is unexpected, though compare dialectal English fleck (“flea”).
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