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Is fike a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fike is a Scrabble US word. The word fike is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

F4I1K5E1

Is fike a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fike is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

F4I1K5E1

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4-letter words (2 found)

FIKE,KIEF,

3-letter words (5 found)

EIK,FIE,IKE,KEF,KIF,

2-letter words (4 found)

EF,FE,IF,KI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from fike according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of fike

fike ifke fkie kfie ikfe kife fiek ifek feik efik iefk eifk fkei kfei feki efki kefi ekfi ikef kief iekf eikf keif ekif

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

Definitions and meaning of fike

fike

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English fiken (“to feign, dissemble, flatter”), from Old English fician (“to wheedle, flatter”) (also found in compound befician (“to deceive”)), from Proto-Germanic *fikōną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ġefic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English fācen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”), Latin piget (“it irks, it annoys”).

Verb

fike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fiken, fyken (“to fidget, move about restlessly, hasten away”), from Old Norse fíkjast (“to be eager or restless”), from fíka (“to climb, move”). Cognate with Scots fyke (“to move about restlessly, fidget, itch”), Norwegian fika (“to strive, take trouble”), Icelandic fikinn (“eager, greedy”). Related to fig and fidget.

Alternative forms

  • fick
  • fyke (Scotland)

Verb

fike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)

  1. (intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
  2. (transitive) To give trouble to; vex; perplex.

Noun

fike (plural fikes)

  1. Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
  2. (UK dialectal) Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
Derived terms
  • fikery
  • fiky

Etymology 3

From Middle English fike, from Old English fīc (“fig, fig-tree, fig-disease, venereal ulcer, hemorrhoids”), from Proto-Germanic *fīkaz, *fīgō (“fig”), from Latin fīcus, fīca (“fig, fig-tree”). Cognate with Dutch vijg (“fig”), German Feige (“fig”), Swedish fikon (“fig”), Icelandic fikja (“ficus”). More at fig.

Noun

fike (plural fikes)

  1. (obsolete) A fig.
  2. (UK dialectal) A sore place on the foot.

Anagrams

  • Efik, Kief, kief, kife

Ese

Noun

fike

  1. chewing gum

Middle English

Noun

fike

  1. Alternative form of fyke

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fíka, fíkja, from Latin ficus. Akin to English fig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²fiːkə/

Noun

fike f (definite singular fika, indefinite plural fiker, definite plural fikene)

  1. a fig

Synonyms

  • fiken

References

  • “fike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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