falk

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 11
Words With Friends: 12
Letters: 4

Definition of falk

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

(countable, uncountable)A surname.

“They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.”
“US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are an “epic tag team,” says foreign policy adviser Ophir Falk in a short conversation with The Jerusalem Post.”

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name

(countable, uncountable)A surname.

“They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.”
“US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are an “epic tag team,” says foreign policy adviser Ophir Falk in a short conversation with The Jerusalem Post.”
(countable, uncountable)A ghost town and former logging settlement in Humboldt County, California, United States.
(countable, uncountable)A township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States.

noun

(UK, archaic, dialectal)The razorbill.

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Etymology

* As a German, Jewish and Scandinavian/North Germanic surname, from the nouns Falke, Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן (falkan), falk (“falcon”). Compare Valk. * As an English surname, variant of Faulks.