Definitions for knack

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Spelling: [nak]
IPA: /næk/

Knack is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in knack (ackkn).

Definitions for knack

noun

  1. a special skill, talent, or aptitude:
  2. a clever or adroit way of doing something.
  3. a trick or ruse.
  4. a sharp, cracking sound.
  5. Archaic. a knickknack; trinket.

Origin of knack

1325-75; Middle English: trick; perhaps same word as knak sharp-sounding blow, rap, cracking noise (imitative)

Examples for knack

Did we children of Boccaccio impart to you that knack for practical joking?

How did you develop this knack for inventing, and surrealism?

Puck artists, like their predecessors, combined picture-making skills with a caricatural precision and a knack for lethal symbols.

I said it required a knack or a genius or something and that I was certain you had it.

The Moors brought the knack from the ancient city of Damascus.

Brinsley was trying to produce tracks—hip-hop, mostly—and he apparently had a knack as a techie.

In the film, Foxx is able to showcase his singing, knack for comedy and all-around versatility.

Yet do I know what a task I have undertaken, because of the knack you are noted for at writing.

Nigel Lythgoe has a knack for resuscitating pop culture tenets that seem on their death bed.

Nothing is more important to good teaching than the knack of apt illustration.

Word Value for knack
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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