This metallic element is a high scoring one for scrabble. It also has some variant spellings which can be useful. But be careful because there is one option that is not there, even though logically you would think it was OK. The spellings of both ZINC and ZINK are allowed You can work with this element as a verb using both options so ZINCED, ZINCING, ZINKED and ZINKING are all good. In fact when using it as a verb you can also include both C and K, So, although zinck is no go