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Is sick a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sick is a Scrabble US word. The word sick is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word sick is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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You can make 11 words from 'sick' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'sick'

ICKS 10SICK 10

3 letters words from 'sick'

CIS 5ICK 9
KIS 7SIC 5
SIK 7SKI 7

2 letters words from 'sick'

IS 2KI 6
SI 2 

All 4 letters words made out of sick

sick isck scik csik icsk cisk sikc iskc skic ksic iksc kisc scki cski skci ksci cksi kcsi icks ciks ikcs kics ckis kcis

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

Definitions and meaning of sick

sick

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sĭk, IPA(key): /sɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪk
  • Homophones: sic, Sikh

Etymology 1

From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (compare West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk sjuk), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”); compare Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “I am weakening”).

Adjective

sick (comparative sicker, superlative sickest)

  1. (more common in the US) In poor health; ill.
    Synonyms: ill, not well, poorly, sickly, unwell
    Antonyms: fit, healthy, well
  2. Having an urge to vomit.
    Synonym: nauseated
    • 1913, The Texas criminal reports, page 8:
      In the meantime the old man had gotten up and gone out in the yard and began to vomit. Henry said I believe I feel sick and got up and went out. He went out one door and his father went out the other one. I did not think there was anything wrong with the coffee and I asked my wife to pour this out […]
    • 1918, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 140:
      Q. Didn't he complain he was sick before he commenced to vomit?
      A. He did, just before he said, to me, “I feel sick,” I asked him if he wanted to throw up and he said yes.
    • 1958, Gene D'Olive, Chiara, Signet Book
      […] trying hard to cry. Crying's good. Crying teaches him to breathe. But I wish he weren't crying from hunger. I feel dizzy. I sit down and feel a little sick. Maybe I'll vomit, too. No, I never vomit. I feel sick, but I won't vomit. I never vomit.
    • 2013, Cheryl Rainfield, Stained, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (→ISBN), page 38:
      I feel sick, like I might vomit, and I'm more tired than I can ever remember feeling.
  3. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
    Synonyms: disturbed, twisted, warped
  4. (colloquial) In bad taste.
  5. Tired of or annoyed by something.
  6. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
    Synonyms: rad, wicked
    Antonyms: crap, naff, uncool
  7. In poor condition.
  8. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Synonyms
  • (in poor health): See also Thesaurus:diseased
  • (having an urge to vomit): See also Thesaurus:nauseated
  • (slang: excellent): See also Thesaurus:excellent
Derived terms
Descendants
  • →? Navajo: sxih
Translations

Noun

sick (uncountable)

  1. (Britain, Australia, colloquial) Vomit.
  2. (Britain, colloquial) (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated.
Synonyms
  • (vomit): See Thesaurus:vomit

Derived terms

  • (ill): sickie a day of sick leave, often implying some level of deceit as in "throw a sickie" - take a day's sick leave for some other purpose.
Translations

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

  1. (colloquial) To vomit.
  2. (obsolete except in dialect, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
    • circa 1598, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 2:
      Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.
    • 2005, Damian Marley, "Welcome to Jamrock", Welcome to Jamrock(album) [3].

Etymology 2

Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek.

Verb

sick (third-person singular simple present sicks, present participle sicking, simple past and past participle sicked)

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic
    • 1920, James Oliver Curwood, "Back to God's Country"
      "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!"
    • 1938, Eugene Gay-Tifft, translator, The Saga of Frank Dover by Johannes Buchholtz, 2005 Kessinger Publishing edition, →ISBN, page 125,
      When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
    • 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 154,
      "...is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
    • 2001 (publication date), Anna Heilman, Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman, University of Calgary Press, →ISBN, page 82,
      Now they find a new entertainment: they sick the dog on us.

Anagrams

  • CKIs

Source: wiktionary.org
  • SICILIANO, (Italian) a Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)