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Is tick a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tick a Scrabble UK word?

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

T1I1C3K5

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4-letter words (1 found)

TICK,

3-letter words (5 found)

CIT,ICK,KIT,TIC,TIK,

2-letter words (3 found)

IT,KI,TI,

You can make 9 words from tick according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of tick

tick itck tcik ctik ictk citk tikc itkc tkic ktic iktc kitc tcki ctki tkci ktci ckti kcti ickt cikt ikct kict ckit kcit

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Definitions and meaning of tick

tick

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪk
  • Homophone: tic

Etymology 1

From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

  1. A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
    Hypernyms: ectoparasite, arachnid
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Further reading

  • tick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ixodida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Category:Ixodida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”).

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

  1. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
  2. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
  3. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
  4. (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
    Synonym: sec
  5. (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
  6. (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
  7. (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
    Synonym: checkmark
  8. (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
  10. (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
  11. A tap or light touch.
  12. A slight speck.
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Verb

tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)

  1. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
  2. To make a tick or checkmark.
  3. (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
  4. To strike gently; to pat.
  5. (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
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Etymology 3

From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”).

Noun

tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks)

  1. (uncountable) Ticking.
  2. A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
Synonyms
  • ticking
Derived terms
  • ticking
Translations

Etymology 4

Clipping of ticket.

Noun

tick (uncountable)

  1. (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
    Synonyms: credit, trust
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Verb

tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)

  1. (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
  2. (transitive) To give tick; to trust.

Etymology 5

From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English tiċċen (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tigā (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

  1. (obsolete, place names) A goat.
Usage notes
  • Nowadays only found in place names. Fell out of common usage in the 13th century.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tick

  1. singular imperative of ticken

Swedish

Etymology

Deverbal from ticka.

Noun

tick n

  1. tick (quiet but sharp sound)

Declension

Further reading

  • tick in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Yola

Noun

tick

  1. Alternative form of titch

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 130

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