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Is tice a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tice is a Scrabble US word. The word tice is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

T1I1C3E1

Is tice a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tice is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

T1I1C3E1

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4-letter words (3 found)

CITE,ETIC,TICE,

3-letter words (5 found)

CIT,ICE,TEC,TIC,TIE,

2-letter words (4 found)

ET,IT,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from tice according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of tice

tice itce tcie ctie icte cite tiec itec teic etic ietc eitc tcei ctei teci etci ceti ecti icet ciet iect eict ceit ecit

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Definitions and meaning of tice

tice

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɪs/

Etymology 1

Possibly from entice, as below, suggesting the bowler's purpose.

Noun

tice (plural tices)

  1. (cricket, dated) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket; a yorker.
    • 1870 July, The Wykehamist, Number 33, page 1,
      Raynor, though somewhat wild, obtained an extraordinary number of wickets for very few runs, his fast "tices" quite puzzling the Eton bats.
    • 1911, Henry Charles Howard Suffolk and Berkshire (Earl of), Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games, Volume 1, page 452,
      A "yorker" (or "tice") pitches on, or within six inches of, the popping crease; […] .
  2. (croquet) A ball left at a hittable but difficult distance or position, to lure the opponent into a mistake.
Synonyms
  • (ball bowled to strike the pitch near the batsman's feet): yorker

Etymology 2

Aphetic form of entice.

Verb

tice (third-person singular simple present tices, present participle ticing, simple past and past participle ticed)

  1. (obsolete) To entice.

Anagrams

  • -etic, CETI, EITC, cite, etic

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English tyce, aphetic from Old French atisier (“to stir up”), probably from a word meaning "to set on fire," derived from Latin titio (“firebrand”). Compare English entice.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /təis/, /taez/

Verb

tice (third-person singular simple present tices, present participle ticin, simple past ticet, past participle ticet)

  1. to coax, entice, wheedle

References

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French terce, alternative form of tiers (“third”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiːs/

Noun

tice m

  1. terce

Source: wiktionary.org