Definitions for weka

weka we·ka

Spelling: [wey-kuh, wee-]
IPA: /ˈweɪ kə, ˈwi-/

Weka is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in weka (aekw).

Definitions for weka

noun

  1. any of several large, flightless New Zealand rails of the genus Gallirallus.

Origin of weka

Borrowed into English from Maori around 1835-45

Examples for weka

I really believe the great desire of Brisk's life was to catch a weka.

Brisk, too, blundered after them, but I had no fear of his destroying the charm of the day by taking even a weka's life.

I looked round, and there was a weka bent on thoroughly investigating the intruder into its domain.

He now had a collection of eggs of all birds which nest on the island, with the exception of the weka and the tern.

Word Value for weka
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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