What BLOCK Means
- verb: render unsuitable for passage“block the way”
- verb: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of“His brother blocked him at every turn”
- noun: a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)“the pyramids were built with large stone blocks”
- noun: a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings“he lives in the next block”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BLOCK is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 L1 O1 C3 K5.
Words Made From The Letters In BLOCK
12 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (3)
3 letter words (5)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BLOCK
BLOCK appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
BACKBLOCKBACKBLOCKSBLOCKABLEBLOCKADEBLOCKADEDBLOCKADERBLOCKADERSBLOCKADESBLOCKADINGBLOCKAGEBLOCKAGESBLOCKBOARDBLOCKBUSTBLOCKBUSTSBLOCKEDBLOCKERBLOCKERSBLOCKHEADBLOCKHEADSBLOCKHOLEBLOCKHOLESBLOCKHOUSEBLOCKIEBLOCKIERBLOCKIESBLOCKIESTBLOCKINESSBLOCKINGBLOCKINGSBLOCKISHBLOCKISHLYBLOCKSBLOCKSHIPBLOCKSHIPSBLOCKWORKBLOCKWORKSBLOCKYCELLBLOCKCELLBLOCKSROADBLOCK
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.