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Is bicker a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bicker is a Scrabble US word. The word bicker is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

B3I1C3K5E1R1

Is bicker a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bicker is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

B3I1C3K5E1R1

Is bicker a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bicker is a Words With Friends word. The word bicker is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4I1C4K5E1R1

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6-letter words (1 found)

BICKER,

5-letter words (4 found)

BIKER,BRICK,ERICK,ICKER,

4-letter words (21 found)

BECK,BERK,BICE,BIER,BIKE,BIRK,BREI,BRIE,BRIK,CIRE,CRIB,ERIC,ICER,KEIR,KERB,KIBE,KIER,RECK,REIK,RICE,RICK,

3-letter words (13 found)

EIK,ERK,ICE,ICK,IKE,IRE,IRK,KEB,KIR,REB,REC,REI,RIB,

2-letter words (5 found)

BE,BI,ER,KI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 45 words from bicker according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bicker

bicker

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɪkɚ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɪkə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) +‎ -er (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (compare Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). Compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).

Verb

bicker (third-person singular simple present bickers, present participle bickering, simple past and past participle bickered)

  1. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
  2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
  3. (of rain) To patter.
  4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
Synonyms
  • wrangle
  • See also Thesaurus:squabble
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Noun

bicker (plural bickers)

  1. A skirmish; an encounter.
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
  3. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
  4. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.

Noun

bicker (plural bickers)

  1. (Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.

Further reading

  • “bicker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “bicker”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • Bicker in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Source: wiktionary.org