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Is brick a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word brick is a Scrabble US word. The word brick is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is brick a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word brick is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

BRICK,

4-letter words (4 found)

BIRK,BRIK,CRIB,RICK,

3-letter words (4 found)

ICK,IRK,KIR,RIB,

2-letter words (2 found)

BI,KI,

You can make 11 words from brick according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of brick

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Definitions and meaning of brick

brick

Etymology

From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: brĭk, IPA(key): /bɹɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Noun

brick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks)

  1. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
    This wall is made of bricks.
  3. (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
    This house is made of brick.
  4. (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
    a plastic explosive brick
  5. (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
    Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick.
  6. (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
    We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
  7. (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
  8. (computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
  9. (UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
  10. (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
  11. (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
  12. The colour brick red.
  13. (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ⇒ Welsh: brics

Translations

Adjective

brick (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New York, of weather) Extremely cold.

Translations

Verb

brick (third-person singular simple present bricks, present participle bricking, simple past and past participle bricked)

  1. (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
  2. (transitive) To make into bricks.
    • 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
      The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
  3. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
  4. (transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
  5. (intransitive, computing slang, of an electronic device) To become nonfunctional, especially in a way beyond repair.
  6. (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "technology, slang: revert a device to the operational state"): unbrick

Derived terms

  • bricker
  • brick in
  • brick it
  • brick over
  • brick up

Translations

See also

  • brickfielder
  • brick it

Further reading

  • brick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “brick”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

Etymology

From English brig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁik/

Noun

brick m (plural bricks)

  1. (nautical) a brig, a two-masted vessel type
  2. a fritter with a filling

Descendants

  • → Romanian: bric
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بریق (brik)
    • Turkish: brik

Further reading

  • “brick”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Manx

Noun

brick m pl

  1. plural of breck

Mutation

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English brick.

Noun

brick m (plural bricks)

  1. (ultimate frisbee) brick

Scots

Verb

brick

  1. South Scots form of brak (“to break”)

Source: wiktionary.org