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CORKS

5 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What CORKS Means

CORKS is a form of CORK, which means:

  1. noun: outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
  2. noun: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
  3. verb: close a bottle with a cork
  4. verb: stuff with cork“The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CORKS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 R1 K5 S1.

Anagrams of CORKS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In CORKS

21 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 (8)

3 letter words (9)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing CORKS

CORKS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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