Grok in Scrabble and Meaning

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Is grok a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grok is a Scrabble US word. The word grok is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is grok a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grok is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

G2R1O1K5

Is grok a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word grok is a Words With Friends word. The word grok is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

GROK,

3-letter words (4 found)

GOR,KOR,ORG,ROK,

2-letter words (4 found)

GO,KO,OK,OR,

You can make 9 words from grok according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of grok

grok rgok gork ogrk rogk orgk grko rgko gkro kgro rkgo krgo gokr ogkr gkor kgor okgr kogr rokg orkg rkog krog okrg korg

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

Definitions and meaning of grok

grok

Etymology

Coined by American author and aeronautical engineer Robert A. Heinlein in 1961 in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein invented the word for his fictitious Martian language. It is described as meaning “to drink” and, figuratively, “to drink in all available aspects of reality”, “to become one with the observed”. William Tenn later asked Heinlein if it could have been inspired by the term griggo, which featured in Tenn's 1949 Venus and the Seven Sexes; Heinlein “looked startled, then thought about it for a long time (and) shrugged, (saying) ‘It's possible, very possible.’”

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɒk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɑk/
  • Rhymes: -ɒk

Verb

grok (third-person singular simple present groks, present participle grokking or groking, simple past and past participle grokked or groked)

  1. (transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.
    Troponym: subitize
  2. (transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.

Usage notes

Grok is used mainly by the geek subculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”

Descendants

  • French: gnoquer
  • Italian: groccare
  • Russian: гро́кать (grókatʹ)
  • Russian: гро́кнуть (gróknutʹ)
  • Slovene: gročiti
  • Turkish: groklamak

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References

Further reading

  • grok on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Heinlein Society

Anagrams

  • gork

Source: wiktionary.org