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Is perk a Scrabble word?

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

P3E1R1K5

Is perk a Scrabble UK word?

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

P3E1R1K5

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4-letter words (1 found)

PERK,

3-letter words (5 found)

ERK,KEP,PER,PRE,REP,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from perk according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of perk

perk eprk prek rpek erpk repk pekr epkr pker kper ekpr kepr prke rpke pkre kpre rkpe krpe erkp rekp ekrp kerp rkep krep

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Definitions and meaning of perk

perk

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɝk/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɜːk/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

Clipping of perquisite.

Alternative forms

  • perq (less common)

Noun

perk (plural perks)

  1. (informal) Perquisite.
  2. (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of percolate (verb) and percolator (noun).

Verb

perk (third-person singular simple present perks, present participle perking, simple past and past participle perked)

  1. (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
  2. (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
Derived terms
  • unperked

Noun

perk (plural perks)

  1. A percolator, particularly of coffee.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Verb

perk (third-person singular simple present perks, present participle perking, simple past and past participle perked)

  1. (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
  2. (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
    • 1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” in Lyrics of Life, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866, pp. 35-36, lines 152-153,[5]
      […] suddenly up the face
      Of the Piper perked in the market-place,
    • 1937 Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 4, “Kavar,” p. 159,[6]
      A strong warm wind carried a sound of chopping with it and a rustle of dead plane-leaves; through those leaves perked the green crooks of young ferns.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
    • 1574, Arthur Golding (translator), Sermons of Master John Calvin, upon the Booke of Job, London: Lucas Harison and George Byshop, Sermon 38, The first upon the tenth Chapter,[7]
      For whereof commeth thys hypocrisie in the popedome, that men shall preache free will, merits, and satisfactions, and set vp their bristles in suche wise, and beare themselues in hande that they may come perking before God, yea and preace thither lyke shamelesse strumpets.
Derived terms

Adjective

perk (comparative more perk, superlative most perk)

  1. (obsolete) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

Etymology 4

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps a variant of peer +‎ -k (frequentative ending).

Verb

perk (third-person singular simple present perks, present participle perking, simple past and past participle perked)

  1. (dated) To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively.
  2. (dialectal) To examine thoroughly.

Etymology 5

From Middle English perken, from Old Northern French perquer.

Verb

perk (third-person singular simple present perks, present participle perking, simple past and past participle perked)

  1. (obsolete) To perch.

Anagrams

  • PKer, pre-K

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch perc, from Old Dutch perk (attested in placenames), from Frankish *parrik, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz. Compare also park and German Pferch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛrk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrk

Noun

perk n (plural perken, diminutive perkje n)

  1. a delimited piece of ground, e.g. a flowerbed

Derived terms

  • bloemperk
  • grasperk
  • krijgsperk
  • oorlogsperk
  • paal en perk stellen
  • perkenwet
  • rozenperk
  • speelperk
  • strijdperk
  • tijdperk

Source: wiktionary.org