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Yes. The word flak is a Scrabble US word. The word flak is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word flak is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

FLAK,

3-letter words (2 found)

ALF,KAF,

2-letter words (4 found)

AL,FA,KA,LA,

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

All 4 letters words made out of flak

flak lfak falk aflk lafk alfk flka lfka fkla kfla lkfa klfa fakl afkl fkal kfal akfl kafl lakf alkf lkaf klaf aklf kalf

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

Definitions and meaning of flak

flak

Alternative forms

  • flack (adverse criticism and spokesperson senses)

Etymology

Borrowed from German FlaK, short for Fliegerabwehrkanone (“anti aeroplane cannon”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk
  • Homophone: flack

Noun

flak (countable and uncountable, plural flaks)

  1. Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. [from 1938]
    Synonyms: ack-ack, AAA, triple-A
  2. Anti-aircraft shell fire. [from 1940]
    Synonym: ack-ack
    • 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
  3. (figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism. [from 1963]
  4. (informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
    • 2006, Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky, A Propaganda Model, in 2006 [2001], Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner (editors), Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks, revised edition, page 277,
      AIM head, Reed Irvine's diatribes are frequently published, and right-wing network flaks who regularly assail the “liberal media,” such as Michael Ledeen, are given Op-ed column space, sympathetic reviews, and a regular place on talk shows as experts.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • flak jacket

Anagrams

  • KLFA, falk

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *awa-laka, from Proto-Indo-European *lek- (“to jump, scuttle”) (compare Norwegian lakka (“to hop, patter about”), Latvian lèkt (“to spring, jump”), Ancient Greek ληκάω (lēkáō, “to dance to music”)).

Verb

flak (aorist flaka, participle flakur)

  1. to throw, hurl, toss, fling off
  2. to smack
  3. (figurative) to cast off, eject
  4. (figurative) to renounce, reject

Related terms

  • fletë

References

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed through German flach (“flat”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flakaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flaːk/
  • Rhymes: -aːk

Noun

flak n (genitive singular flaks, nominative plural flök)

  1. wreck
  2. filet, (UK) fillet (of fish)

Declension

Synonyms

  • (wreck): rekald n
  • (a fish fillet): flak af fiski n

Derived terms

  • flaka

See also

  • lundir (of beef etc.)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse flaga, flak.

Noun

flak n (definite singular flaket, indefinite plural flak, definite plural flaka or flakene)

  1. a flake
  2. floe (of ice)
  3. tail (of a garment; coat tail, shirt tail)

Derived terms

  • isflak

References

  • “flak” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “flak_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “flak_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse flaga, flak. Akin to English flake.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɑːk/

Noun

flak n (definite singular flaket, indefinite plural flak, definite plural flaka)

  1. a flake
  2. floe (of ice)
  3. tail (of a garment; coat tail, shirt tail)

Derived terms

  • isflak
  • snøflak

References

  • “flak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Plautdietsch

Adjective

flak

  1. shallow (not deep)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German vlëcke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flak/
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: flak

Noun

flak m inan (diminutive flaczek)

  1. sausage casing made from animal intestine
    Synonym: kiszka
  2. part of animal entrails
  3. (colloquial, of human anatomy) entrail, gut, innard, intestine, viscus (organ in the abdomen)
    Synonym: jelito
  4. (colloquial) flat tyre (deflated tyre)
  5. (colloquial) weak, exhausted person
    Synonym: dętka

Declension

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Related terms

Further reading

  • flak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • flak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed through German flach (“flat”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flakaz.

Noun

flak n

  1. a flat object, a floe, a flatbed
  2. a bed, the (open) cargo area of a vehicle (e.g. truck, lorry, pickup truck, dump truck, tip truck)

Declension

Related terms

  • flakbil
  • flakcykel
  • flakmoped
  • isflak
  • lastbilsflak
  • tippflak

See also

  • baklucka

References

  • flak in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • flak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • flak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • falk

Source: wiktionary.org