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Is tickle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tickle is a Scrabble US word. The word tickle is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is tickle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tickle is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Is tickle a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word tickle is a Words With Friends word. The word tickle is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

TICKLE,

5-letter words (3 found)

CLEIK,ICKLE,TELIC,

4-letter words (18 found)

CEIL,CELT,CIEL,CITE,CLIT,ETIC,KELT,KILT,KITE,LICE,LICK,LIKE,LITE,TEIL,TICE,TICK,TIKE,TILE,

3-letter words (22 found)

CEL,CIT,EIK,ELK,ELT,ICE,ICK,IKE,ILK,KET,KIT,LEI,LEK,LET,LIE,LIT,TEC,TEL,TIC,TIE,TIK,TIL,

2-letter words (7 found)

EL,ET,IT,KI,LI,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 52 words from tickle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tickle

tickle

Etymology

From Middle English tiklen, tikelen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative form of Middle English tikken (“to touch lightly”), thus equivalent to tick +‎ -le; or perhaps related to Old English tinclian (“to tickle”). Compare North Frisian tigele (“to tickle”) (Hallig dialect), and tiikle (“to tickle”) (Amrum dialect), German dialectal zicklen (“to excite; stir up”).
Alternatively, from a metathetic alteration of Middle English kitelen ("to tickle"; see kittle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɪkl̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɪkəl
  • Hyphenation: tick‧le

Noun

tickle (plural tickles)

  1. The act of tickling.
  2. An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
  3. (cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.
  4. (Newfoundland) A narrow strait.

Translations

Verb

tickle (third-person singular simple present tickles, present participle tickling, simple past and past participle tickled)

  1. (transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
  2. (transitive) To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
  3. (intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
  4. (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
  5. (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
  6. (intransitive) To feel titillation.
  7. (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
  8. (archaic) To be excited or heartened.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tickle.

Synonyms

  • kittle

Translations

Adjective

tickle (comparative more tickle, superlative most tickle)

  1. (obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.

Adverb

tickle (comparative more tickle, superlative most tickle)

  1. Insecurely, precariously, unstably.

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Keltic

Source: wiktionary.org