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What does wark mean? Is wark a Scrabble word?

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Is wark a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wark is a Scrabble US word. The word wark is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

W4A1R1K5

Is wark a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wark is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

W4A1R1K5

Is wark a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word wark is a Words With Friends word. The word wark is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4A1R1K5

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Valid words made from Wark

You can make 9 words from 'wark' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'wark'

WARK 11 

3 letters words from 'wark'

ARK 7AWK 10
KAW 10RAW 6
WAR 6 

2 letters words from 'wark'

AR 2AW 5
KA 6 

All 4 letters words made out of wark

wark awrk wrak rwak arwk rawk wakr awkr wkar kwar akwr kawr wrka rwka wkra kwra rkwa krwa arkw rakw akrw karw rkaw kraw

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

Definitions and meaning of wark

wark

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɔː(ɹ)k/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

  1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.
Derived terms
  • bellywark
  • headwark

Etymology 2

From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.

Verb

wark (third-person singular simple present warks, present participle warking, simple past and past participle warked)

  1. (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

Etymology 3

See work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

  1. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

  • rawk

Kashubian

Noun

wark m

  1. business
  2. profession

Northeast Pashayi

Noun

wark

  1. water

Further reading

  • Robert Leech, Vocabularies of seven languages, spoken in the countries west of the Indus; also Epitome of the Grammars of the Brahuiky, Balochky & Panjabi Languages (1843)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English work, werk, from Old English worc, weorc, ġeweorc, from Proto-Germanic *werką (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

  1. work

Source: wiktionary.org
  • WARE, to beware of.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)