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

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4-letter words (1 found)

TACK,

3-letter words (4 found)

ACT,CAT,KAT,TAK,

2-letter words (3 found)

AT,KA,TA,

You can make 8 words from tack according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of tack

tack atck tcak ctak actk catk takc atkc tkac ktac aktc katc tcka ctka tkca ktca ckta kcta ackt cakt akct kact ckat kcat

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Definitions and meaning of tack

tack

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /tæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English tak, takke (“hook; staple; nail”), from Old Northern French taque (“nail, pin, peg”), from Frankish *takkō, from Proto-Germanic *takkô (“tip; point; protrusion; prong; tine; jag; spike; twig”), of unknown origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dHgʰ-n-, from the root *déHgʰ- (“to pinch; to tear, rip, fray”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Takke (“bough; branch; twig”), West Frisian takke (“branch”), tûk (“branch, smart, sharp”), Dutch tak (“twig; branch; limb”), German Zacke (“jag; prong; spike; tooth; peak”).

Alternative forms

  • tache

Noun

tack (countable and uncountable, plural tacks)

  2. A small nail with a flat head.
    Hyponym: thumbtack
  4. A thumbtack.
    Coordinate term: pushpin
  6. (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
  8. (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
  10. (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
  12. (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
  14. (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
  16. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
  18. (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
  20. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
    Hyponyms: saddle, stirrup, bridle, halter
  22. (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
  24. Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
  26. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
  28. (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
Synonyms
  • (nautical maneuver): coming about
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English takken (“to attach; nail”), from the noun (see above).

Verb

tack (third-person singular simple present tacks, present participle tacking, simple past and past participle tacked)

  1. To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
  3. To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
  4. (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
    Synonym: change tack
    Antonym: wear
  5. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
    Synonym: beat
    Antonym: run
  7. To add something as an extra item.
    to tack (something) onto (something)
  8. Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
  9. (slang, obsolete) To join in wedlock.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • tacky
Translations

See also

  • Tack (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Blu-Tack

Etymology 3

From an old or dialectal form of French tache. See techy. Doublet of tache.

Noun

tack (plural tacks)

  1. A stain; a tache.
  2. (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
    a musty tack

References

  • (en, flavour or taint): 1893, Joseph Wright, The English dialect dictionary (page 4)
  • (en, flavour or taint): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 4

Back-formation from tacky.

Noun

tack (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.

Etymology 5

From Middle English tak, take (“fee, tax (on livestock)”), from Old Norse tak, taka (“a taking, seizure; revenue”), from Old Norse taka (“to take”). Cognate with Scots tack.

Noun

tack (plural tacks)

  2. (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.

See also

References

  • “tack”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “tack”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • ATCK, Tkac

Scots

Alternative forms

  • tak

Etymology

From Middle English tak, take, from Old Norse tak, taka (“a taking, revenue”).

Noun

tack (plural tacks)

  1. Lease, tenancy
  2. The period of such a contract
  3. A leasehold; especially, the tenure of a land or a farm.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish þak, from Runic Swedish þakk, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz. Cognates include English thank, German Dank, Danish tak and Norwegian Nynorsk takk/Norwegian Bokmål takk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tak/, /tɑk/

Interjection

tack

  1. thanks, thank you
    Synonym: (emphatic) tack snälla (“thank you so much”)
  2. please (to add politeness)
    Synonym: (in polite requests) är du snäll

Usage notes

  • Like in English, another way to add politeness is to turn requests into possibilities (the more remote, the politer). See skola for examples.
  • A pleading please (like, "Please, don't do it!") is snälla.

Derived terms

  • ja tack
  • nej tack
  • tack för mig
  • tack så mycket
  • tack vare
  • tacksam (“grateful”)

Related terms

  • tacka

Noun

tack n

  1. a thank you, a thanks (phrase or gesture that expresses gratitude)

Declension

Derived terms

  • tusen tack

See also

  • förlåt (“I'm sorry”)
  • hygglig
  • hygglo
  • schysst
  • skola (for other ways to make expressions polite)
  • snälla (“please (when pleading)”)
  • tack och bock
  • tackar och bockar
  • ursäkta (“excuse me”)
  • är du snäll

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org