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Is spike a Scrabble word?

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

S1P3I1K5E1

Is spike a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1P3I1K5E1

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5-letter words (4 found)

KEPIS,KIPES,PIKES,SPIKE,

4-letter words (16 found)

EIKS,KEPI,KEPS,KIPE,KIPS,PIES,PIKE,PISE,SEIK,SIKE,SIPE,SKEP,SKIP,SPEK,SPIE,SPIK,

3-letter words (13 found)

EIK,IKE,KEP,KIP,KIS,PES,PIE,PIS,PSI,SEI,SIK,SIP,SKI,

2-letter words (6 found)

ES,IS,KI,PE,PI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 40 words from spike according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of spike

spike psike sipke ispke piske ipske spkie pskie skpie kspie pksie kpsie sikpe iskpe skipe ksipe ikspe kispe pikse ipkse pkise kpise ikpse kipse spiek psiek sipek ispek pisek ipsek speik pseik sepik espik pesik epsik siepk isepk seipk esipk iespk eispk piesk ipesk peisk episk iepsk eipsk spkei pskei skpei kspei pksei kpsei speki pseki sepki espki peski epski skepi ksepi sekpi eskpi kespi ekspi pkesi kpesi peksi epksi kepsi ekpsi sikep iskep skiep ksiep iksep kisep siekp isekp seikp esikp ieskp eiskp skeip kseip sekip eskip kesip eksip ikesp kiesp ieksp eiksp keisp ekisp pikes ipkes pkies kpies ikpes kipes pieks ipeks peiks epiks iepks eipks pkeis kpeis pekis epkis kepis ekpis ikeps kieps iekps eikps keips ekips

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Definitions and meaning of spike

spike

Etymology

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spaɪk/
  • Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

spike (plural spikes)

  1. A sort of very large nail.
  2. A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
  3. (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  5. An ear of corn or grain.
  6. (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
  7. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
  8. A sharp peak in a graph.
  9. A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
  10. The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
  11. A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
    Synonym: spindle
  12. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
  13. (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
  14. (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
  15. Spike lavender.
  16. (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
  17. (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
  18. (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.

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Verb

spike (third-person singular simple present spikes, present participle spiking, simple past and past participle spiked)

  1. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
  2. To set or furnish with spikes.
  3. To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
  4. To fix on a spike.
  5. (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
  6. To increase sharply.
    • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[4]
      But the bigger threat is that people in Sulawesi have been eating macaque meat for centuries. Today it goes for about two dollars a pound (an adult macaque weighs 18 to 23 pounds), and demand spikes at holidays.
  7. To covertly put alcohol or a drug into a drink.
  8. To add a small amount of one substance to another.
  9. (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
    Synonyms: attack, hit
  10. (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
  11. (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
    to spike the football
  12. (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.

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References

  • Jonathon Green (2024) “spike v.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  • Jonathon Green (2024) “spike v.4”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

  • Pikes, Sipek, kepis, kipes, pikes

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