ICK is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. ICK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ICK?
| 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: 61 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ICK is to know. It scores 9 from 3 tiles, takes 12 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ICK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ICK scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ICK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,983.
What does ICK mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A feeling of disgust, or the thing that causes it.
Ick began as an exclamation and turned into a noun, which is unusual: the ick is now something a person gets, and the phrase describes a sudden loss of attraction rather than physical revulsion. That sense spread through dating talk in the 2020s and is younger than most people assume.
How ICK is used
Countable and uncountable: the ick, an ick. Informal.
- She got the ick and could not explain why.
- An ick is rarely about anything important.
- The word ick moved from exclamation to noun in one decade.
- He gave her the ick by chewing loudly.
- The ick cannot be argued away once it has arrived.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ICK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ICK
12 longer words begin with ICK.
Words ending in ICK
Showing 24 of 195 words that end in ICK. Useful as a back hook: play ICK onto a word already on the board.
Words with ICK inside
Showing 24 of 1379 words that contain ICK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ICK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ICK
Common questions about ICK
- Is ICK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ICK, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ICK worth?
- ICK is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ICK mean?
- A feeling of disgust, or the thing that causes it.
- What letters can be added to ICK?
- ICK takes 12 hooks: 10 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ICK:
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