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Is shack a Scrabble word?

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

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Is shack a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (2 found)

HACKS,SHACK,

4-letter words (6 found)

CASH,CASK,CHAS,HACK,HASK,SACK,

3-letter words (10 found)

ACH,AHS,ASH,ASK,CHA,HAS,KAS,SAC,SHA,SKA,

2-letter words (6 found)

AH,AS,CH,HA,KA,SH,

You can make 24 words from shack according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of shack

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Definitions and meaning of shack

shack

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

Unknown. Some authorities derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”).

Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly.

Noun

shack (plural shacks)

  1. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
    Synonyms: hovel, shanty
  2. Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
  3. (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
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Verb

shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)

  1. To live (in or with); to shack up.
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Etymology 2

Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).

Noun

shack (countable and uncountable, plural shacks)

  1. (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
  2. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  3. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
    • 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [2]
      […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
    • 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners [3]
      The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
  4. (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  5. (fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
  6. (Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
Derived terms
  • common of shack

Verb

shack (third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked)

  1. (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  2. (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
    • 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke [4]
      […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
  3. (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
  4. (US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
  5. (Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol.

Etymology 3

From shagged or shagged out, originally British colloquialisms.

Adjective

shack (comparative more shack, superlative most shack)

  1. (Singapore, slang) Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.

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Anagrams

  • hacks, schak

Source: wiktionary.org