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LOCK
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
L
1
O
1
C
3
K
5
Σ
10
Definitions
Verb
- become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
- fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"
- keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace"
- hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck"
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
Noun
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a strand or cluster of hair
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word LOCK
Yes, LOCK is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 10 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
LOCK is a 4-letter word. It contains 1 vowels and 3 consonants.