Unscramble TIKE to get 12 words. TIKE itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 8 points: KITE. 4 shorter words score 7, among them KIT, EIK and KET. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Words from TIKE by length: 2 with 4 letters, 5 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of TIKE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with TI · ending in KE · all 4-letter words
What TIKE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TIKE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIKE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 12) | 9 | 12 | 7 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
3 of the 12 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EIK, KET and TIK. 2 of the 12 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: KI and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of TIKE spell the words below.