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FUNK

4 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What FUNK Means

  1. noun: a state of nervous depression“he was in a funk”
  2. noun: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
  3. verb: draw back, as with fear or pain“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FUNK 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 F4 U1 N1 K5.

Words Made From The Letters In FUNK

3 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.

3 letter words (1)

2 letter words (2)

Longer Words Containing FUNK

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

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