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Is fice a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fice is a Scrabble US word. The word fice is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

F4I1C3E1

Is fice a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fice is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

F4I1C3E1

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Yes. The word fice is a Words With Friends word. The word fice is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

FICE,

3-letter words (2 found)

FIE,ICE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EF,FE,IF,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from fice according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of fice

fice ifce fcie cfie icfe cife fiec ifec feic efic iefc eifc fcei cfei feci efci cefi ecfi icef cief iecf eicf ceif ecif

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word fice. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in fice.

Definitions and meaning of fice

fice

Alternative forms

  • feist, fise, fist

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faɪs/

Noun

fice (plural fices)

  1. (US) Alternative form of feist (“a feist dog”)
    • 1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America, Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178,
      He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice, or cur dog, would rail behind my back.
    • a1849, James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States, Second Edition, Charles Gilpin (1849), pages 33–34,
      Besides inflicting upon my own excited imagination the belief that I made noise enough to be heard by the inmates of the house who were likely to be rising at the time, I had the misfortune to attract the notice of a little house-dog, such as we call in that part of the world a “fice,’ [sic] on account of its being not only the smallest species of the canine race, but also, because it is the most saucy, noisy, and teasing of all dogs.
    • 1873, Joseph S. Williams, Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences—Semi-historic—of Pioneer Life and the Early Emigrant Settlers in the Big Hatchie Country, W. G. Cheeney, page 260,
      One August afternoon he was returning from his dinner, when near the public square, he came to a little white fice dog and another little dog grining [sic] and growling at each other on the sidewalk.
    • 1955, John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, Harper and Brothers Publishers, page 114
      At Belton, an armed thug suddenly arose and started toward him. But old Sam Houston, looking him right in the eye, put each hand on his own pistols: "Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your seats. It is nothing but a fice barking at the lion in his den.
    • 1995, George Cauley, quoted in Mark Derr, Dog’s Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship, University of Chicago Press (2004), →ISBN, page 57,
      When I was growing up, everybody had a little dog they called a feist or fice and a big yard dog, a cur.

Derived terms

  • fice dog

Latin

Noun

fīce

  1. vocative singular of fīcus

Spanish

Verb

fice

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of facer

Source: wiktionary.org