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Is tig a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tig is a Scrabble US word. The word tig is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

T1I1G2

Is tig a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tig is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

T1I1G2

Is tig a Words With Friends word?

The word tig is NOT a Words With Friends word.

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Valid words made from Tig

You can make 5 words from 'tig' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'tig'

GIT 4TIG 4

2 letters words from 'tig'

GI 3IT 2
TI 2 

All 3 letters words made out of tig

tig itg tgi gti igt git

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

Definitions and meaning of tig

tig

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɪɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • tyg

Noun

tig (plural tigs)

  1. (historical) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

Etymology 2

Noun

tig (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland) The children's game of tag.
    • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 43
      One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.

Anagrams

  • GTi, IGT, git

Cebuano

Etymology

From tig-.

Noun

tig

  1. (often humorous, derogatory) a gofer; a worker who runs errands

Dutch

Etymology

From the suffix -tig used to form multiples of ten.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪx

Determiner

tig

  1. (informal) tens, dozens, lots
    Ik kan wel tig redenen bedenken waarom dit fout is!
    I can think of dozens of reasons why this is wrong!

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tigre (“tiger”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiɡ/

Noun

tig

  1. tiger

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʲɪɟ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ·ticc, prototonic form of do·icc (“comes”).

Verb

tig

  1. Alternative form of tagann, the present indicative analytic of tar
Usage notes

The form tig is especially common in tar le (“be able”).

Etymology 2

Variant form of tuig.

Verb

tig (present analytic tigeann, future analytic tigfidh, verbal noun tiscint, past participle tigthe)

  1. Cois Fharraige form of tuig (“to understand”)

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Pronunciation spelling based on the fact that word-final -igh and -ig are pronounced the same in Munster.

Noun

tig m

  1. Munster spelling of tigh (“house”)

Mutation

Livonian

Etymology

Related to Estonian tige.

Adjective

tig

  1. angry

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʲiɣʲ/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • taig

Noun

tig n

  1. dative singular of tech

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

tig

  1. genitive singular masculine/neuter of tiug

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tig

  1. future of thig

Usage notes

  • This is the dependent form, the basic form being thig.

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːɡ

Verb

tig

  1. imperative of tiga.

Source: wiktionary.org
  • TIFT, (Scots) to quarrel, be in a huff.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)