What TICKS Means
TICKS is a form of TICK, which 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
TICKS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 I1 C3 K5 S1.
Anagrams of TICKS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In TICKS
29 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.
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing TICKS
TICKS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ANTICKSBEDTICKSBESTICKSBLUETICKSCANSTICKSCHAPSTICKSCHOPSTICKSCRABSTICKSDETICKSDIPSTICKSDOWNTICKSDRUMSTICKSFLAGSTICKSGLOWSTICKSGOLDSTICKSGUNSTICKSHEADSTICKSJOYSTICKSKNOBSTICKSLIPSTICKSLOBSTICKSLOPSTICKSMAHLSTICKSMALSTICKSMAPSTICKSMAULSTICKSMETESTICKSMOPSTICKSNICKSTICKSPANSTICKSPIGSTICKSPOLITICKSPRACTICKSRICKSTICKSSCHTICKSSHTICKSSLAPSTICKSSTICKSSTICKSEEDSTICKSEEDS
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.