Scrabble & Words with friends points
- bank is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
- bank is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
- bank is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 12
Definition of bank
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities (noun)
Examples
- he cashed a check at the bank
- that bank holds the mortgage on my home
Synonyms
- banking company
- banking concern
- depository financial institution
- have faith or confidence in (verb)
Synonyms
- bet
- calculate
- count
- depend
- look
- reckon
- rely
- swear
- put into a bank account (verb)
Synonyms
- deposit
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home (noun)
Examples
- the coin bank was empty
Synonyms
- coin bank
- money box
- savings bank
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force (noun)
Synonyms
- camber
- cant
- a building in which the business of banking transacted (noun)
Examples
- the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon
Synonyms
- bank building
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling (verb)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning) (noun)
Examples
- the plane went into a steep bank
- a long ridge or pile (noun)
Examples
- a huge bank of earth
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers (noun)
Examples
- he operated a bank of switches
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies) (noun)
- be in the banking business (verb)
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning (verb)
Examples
- bank a fire
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank (verb)
Examples
- Where do you bank in this town?
- enclose with a bank (verb)
Examples
- bank roads
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) (noun)
Examples
- they pulled the canoe up on the bank
- he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games (noun)
Examples
- he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo
- tip laterally (verb)
Examples
- the pilot had to bank the aircraft
See definition of bank in Merriam Webster