Unscramble TICKS and you have 32 words, TICKS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of TICKS is on the page: STICK, each 11 points. SICK, TICK and ICKS are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 5 letters, 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from TICKS by length: 2 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 14 with 3 and 6 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of TICKS, with one letter different:
More 5-letter words: starting with TI · ending in KS · all 5-letter words
What TICKS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. TICKS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TICKS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 32) | 26 | 32 | 23 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
6 of the 32 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TIKS, SIK, TIK, CITS, CIT and ST. 3 of the 32 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ICKS, KIS and KI.
These 10 words take every letter of TICKS plus a single extra one.