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Is grice a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grice is a Scrabble US word. The word grice is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is grice a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grice is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

GRICE,

4-letter words (4 found)

CIRE,ERIC,ICER,RICE,

3-letter words (10 found)

CIG,ERG,GER,GIE,ICE,IRE,REC,REG,REI,RIG,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,GI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from grice according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of grice

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Definitions and meaning of grice

grice

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɹʌɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle English gris, from Old Norse gríss.

Noun

grice (plural grice or grices)

  1. (now Scotland) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
    • 1789, William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie, pg.105:
      Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, grice.

Etymology 2

Unknown, possibly from Richard Grice, the first champion trainspotter[1], alternatively perhaps a humorous representation of an upper-class pronunciation of grouser (“grouse-shooter”)[2]. In either case the derivation could be direct or a back-formation from gricer.

Verb

grice (third-person singular simple present grices, present participle gricing, simple past and past participle griced)

  1. (UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
Related terms
  • gricer

Etymology 3

Noun

grice (plural grices)

  1. (obsolete) A step or stair.

References

Anagrams

  • -ergic

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse gríss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrəis/

Noun

grice (plural grices)

  1. pig, piglet

Source: wiktionary.org