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Is whack a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whack is a Scrabble US word. The word whack is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Is whack a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whack is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

W4H4A1C3K5

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Yes. The word whack is a Words With Friends word. The word whack is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

CHAWK,WHACK,

4-letter words (5 found)

CAWK,CHAW,HACK,HAWK,WACK,

3-letter words (7 found)

ACH,AWK,CAW,CHA,HAW,KAW,WHA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AH,AW,CH,HA,KA,

You can make 19 words from whack according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of whack

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Definitions and meaning of whack

whack

Etymology

Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken < Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wæk/
  • (without the wine–whine merger) IPA(key): /ʍæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk
  • Homophone: wack (accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whack (plural whacks)

  1. The sound of a heavy strike.
  2. The strike itself.
  3. The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
  4. (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
  5. (originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
  6. (obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
  7. (US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
  8. (dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
  9. (typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
    del c:\docs\readme.txt
    Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.

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Verb

whack (third-person singular simple present whacks, present participle whacking, simple past and past participle whacked)

  1. To hit, slap or strike.
    • G. W. Cable
      Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
  2. (slang) To assassinate, bump off.
    Synonym: clip
  3. (transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
  4. (sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
    • 2012, Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
      The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
  5. (UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:kill

Derived terms

  • whack-a-mole
  • whack off
  • whack the illy

Translations

Adjective

whack (comparative whacker, superlative whackest)

  1. Alternative form of wack (“crazy”)
    That's whack, yo!

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "whack, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1923.

Source: wiktionary.org