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Is tweak a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tweak is a Scrabble US word. The word tweak is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is tweak a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tweak is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Yes. The word tweak is a Words With Friends word. The word tweak is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

TWEAK,

4-letter words (9 found)

KETA,TAKE,TEAK,TWAE,WAKE,WATE,WEAK,WEKA,WETA,

3-letter words (22 found)

AKE,ATE,AWE,AWK,EAT,ETA,EWK,EWT,KAE,KAT,KAW,KEA,KET,TAE,TAK,TAW,TEA,TEW,TWA,WAE,WAT,WET,

2-letter words (10 found)

AE,AT,AW,EA,ET,EW,KA,TA,TE,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from tweak according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of tweak

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Definitions and meaning of tweak

tweak

Etymology

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twiːk/
  • Rhymes: -iːk

Verb

tweak (third-person singular simple present tweaks, present participle tweaking, simple past and past participle tweaked)

  1. (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
  2. (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
  3. (transitive) To tease, to annoy; to get under the skin of (someone, typically so as to irritate them, or by extension to enamor, frighten, etc).
    • 1995, Alida Brill, Feminist Press, A Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide, Feminist Press at CUNY (→ISBN), page 177:
      Oh, he loved to tweak people and say things like "Hiya sweetums" to me because that was not exactly de rigueur in front of a bunch of strong feminists. He had this enormous sense of humor. I never knew what he was going to say.
  4. (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
  5. (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by authorities, compulsiveness, erratic motion, excitability, etc, due to or mimicking the symptoms of methamphetamine abuse.
  6. (intransitive, slang, by extension) To be extremely confused; to have no clue what is going on.
    Synonym: (slang) trip

Derived terms

  • (drug abuser): tweaker (US)
  • (drug abuse): tweaking

Translations

Noun

tweak (plural tweaks)

  1. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
  2. A slight adjustment or modification.
  3. Trouble; distress; tweag.
  4. (obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
  5. (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the cipher.

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References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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