Cooks
/kʊks/
noun
- A person who prepares food.
"I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners."
- The head cook of a manor house
- The degree or quality of cookedness of food
- One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
"Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."
- A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
verb
- To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
"I'm cooking bangers and mash."
- To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
"He's in the kitchen, cooking."
- To be cooked.
"The dinner is cooking on the stove."
- To be uncomfortably hot.
"Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."
- To execute by electric chair.
verb
- To throw.
Total: 11 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Cooks"
Cooks is a 5-letter word that scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "cooks" can be rearranged to form 1 other valid word.
Using "Cooks" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "cooks" is a medium-scoring word.