HICK is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. HICK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HICK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HICK is to know. It scores 13 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HICK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HICK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HICK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 108,923.
What does HICK mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
An unsophisticated country person.
Hick is a familiar form of the name Richard, in the same way that Hodge once stood for a farm labourer. Using a common first name for a whole class of people is a very old English habit.
How HICK is used
Countable: a hick, two hicks. Derogatory.
- Calling somebody a hick says more about the speaker.
- The word hick is a familiar form of Richard.
- A hick town in a film is never a real place.
- Two hicks in a comedy and neither given a line.
- Hodge did the same job as hick two centuries earlier.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HICK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of HICK
The 4 tiles of HICK in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with HICK
16 longer words begin with HICK.
Words ending in HICK
10 words end in HICK. Useful as a back hook: play HICK onto a word already on the board.
Words with HICK inside
Showing 24 of 85 words that contain HICK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HICK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HICK
Common questions about HICK
- Is HICK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HICK, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HICK worth?
- HICK is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HICK mean?
- An unsophisticated country person.
- What letters can be added to HICK?
- HICK takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HICK:
Open HICK in the Word Finder