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Is smoke a Scrabble word?

Yes, smoke is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of smoke?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.Examples: "If those were the days, however, when steam was triumphant, they were also the days of smoke. Nowhere was this so apparent as at "Kings Cross (Suburban)" where, one after another, the Great Northern tank engines thumped their way up the incline and emerged from the tunnel, in clouds of steam and smoke, to pound their way up the last few hundred feet of gradient alongside the platform."; "Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."uncountable

2. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.Examples: "Can I bum a smoke off you?; I need to go buy some smokes."; "2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance. I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out"Synonyms: cig, ciggy, cancer stick, coffin nail, fagcolloquialcountable

3. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)Examples: "Hey, you got some smoke?"; "ERCS Guard: Got a smoke? We're all out."colloquialuncountable

4. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.Examples: "I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching."; "I'm going out for a smoke."colloquialcountable

5. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.Examples: "The excitement behind the new candidate proved to be smoke."; "I fed her a lot of smoke about a sheep station outside Adelaide and a big property in the high street with a glass front and ‘Thomas’ in lights. She didn’t believe me."figurativelyuncountable

6. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.Examples: "The smoke of controversy."figurativelyuncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.Examples: "He's smoking his pipe."; "Smoking a pipe has gone out of fashion."; "Olivia's dad smoked various brands when he was younger."Synonyms: have a smoketransitive

2. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.Examples: "He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me."; "To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling."; "Do you smoke?"intransitive

3. (intransitive) To give off smoke.Examples: "My old truck was still smoking even after the repairs."; "Hard by a cottage chimney smokes."intransitive

4. (intransitive) To give off smoke.intransitive

5. (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.Examples: "You'll need to smoke the meat for several hours."transitive

6. (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.Examples: "After opening one of the hives from the back, he smoked the bees to calm them and to drive the queen toward the front of the hive."transitive

name (English)

1. (UK, informal) London.Examples: "I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week."UKinformal

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "smoke"?

Scrabble
11 points
S1
M3
O1
K5
E1
Words With Friends
12 points
S1
M4
O1
K5
E1

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