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Is clock a Scrabble word?

Yes, clock is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle Yes
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of clock?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.Examples: "A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer."attributivecountableuncountable

2. (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.Examples: "This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock."Synonyms: odometerBritishcountableuncountable

3. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.countableuncountable

4. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.Examples: "Executing a NEXT to code takes 7 clocks, or 1.05 microseconds."; "The best schedule produced by any hardware algorithm takes 7 clocks, whereas the statically reordered code in Figure 1.2(b) takes only 5 clocks."countableinformaluncountable

5. (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.Synonyms: clock patienceuncountable

6. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A watch (timepiece).Examples: "Arthur Morrison, Chance of the Game But if the clock was a red 'un, and the opportunity undoubted; to be pinched in the Bow Road merely might well imply loss of caste in the mob, but nobody need be ashamed to be pinched anywhere for a gold watch, after all."UKcountableobsoleteuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To measure the duration of.Synonyms: timetransitive

2. (transitive) To measure the speed of.Examples: "He was clocked at 155 miles per hour."; "Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat."transitive

3. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.Examples: "When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him."Synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whackslangtransitive

4. (transitive, informal) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).Examples: "Clock the wheels on that car!"; "It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had."; "Cut to the pub on a lads night out, / Man at the bar cos it was his shout, / Clocks this bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way,"informaltransitive

5. (transitive, informal, with as) To recognize; to assess, register.Examples: "I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!"; "Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut."informaltransitive

6. (transitive, informal) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).Examples: "Once my transition was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network."; "Jaz said that the palpitations of fear he used to experience at the prospect of being publicly outed in the gurdwara dissipated after he clocked other gay Sikhs in there, even one who professed a Jat caste identity, he said – Jatness being associated with stereotypical dominant macho masculinity. He reflected that this was a major factor in his rapprochement with his[…]"; "Consuella Lopez, the director of operations and housing at Casa Ruby, remembers. "The more passable your body was, the less bullying you'd get, the more chances of you getting a regular job at a regular place without somebody clocking you.""Synonyms: readinformaltransitive

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.transitive

verb (English)

1. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.Scotlanddatedintransitive

2. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.Scotlanddatedintransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "clock"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "clock"?

Scrabble
13 points
C3
L1
O1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
16 points
C4
L2
O1
C4
K5

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