What TICK Means
- noun: a metallic tapping sound“he counted the ticks of the clock”
- noun: any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- verb: make a clicking or ticking sound“The clock ticked away”
- verb: make a sound like a clock or a timer“the clocks were ticking”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
TICK is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 I1 C3 K5.
Words Made From The Letters In TICK
8 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (5)
2 letter words (3)
Longer Words Containing TICK
TICK appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ANTICKANTICKEANTICKEDANTICKINGANTICKSANTISTICKBEDTICKBEDTICKSBESTICKBESTICKINGBESTICKSBIGSTICKBLUETICKBLUETICKSBREADSTICKBROOMSTICKCANSTICKCANSTICKSCHAPSTICKCHAPSTICKSCHOPSTICKCHOPSTICKSCRABSTICKCRABSTICKSDETICKDETICKEDDETICKERDETICKERSDETICKINGDETICKSDIPSTICKDIPSTICKSDOWNTICKDOWNTICKSDRUMSTICKDRUMSTICKSFERNTICKLEFLAGSTICKFLAGSTICKSFLATSTICK
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