ICE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ICE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ICE?
| 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: 59 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ICE is to know. It scores 5 from 3 tiles, takes 15 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ICE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ICE scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ICE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 749.
What does ICE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Water in its solid frozen state.
Ice expands as it freezes, which almost no other substance does, and that is why lakes freeze from the top down and the fish survive underneath. The word is Germanic and has stayed nearly unchanged for well over a thousand years.
How ICE is used
Uncountable; countable for a serving or a sheet.
- The ice on the pond held everybody except the last one.
- Ice expands as it forms, which is why pipes burst.
- A sheet of ice on the road and no grit anywhere.
- The word ice has hardly changed in a thousand years.
- Two ices from the van and one dropped immediately.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ICE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ICE
Showing 24 of 54 words that begin with ICE.
Words ending in ICE
Showing 24 of 163 words that end in ICE. Useful as a back hook: play ICE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ICE inside
Showing 24 of 780 words that contain ICE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ICE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about ICE
- Is ICE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ICE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ICE worth?
- ICE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ICE mean?
- Water in its solid frozen state.
- What letters can be added to ICE?
- ICE takes 15 hooks: 12 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ICE:
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