ICKER is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. ICKER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ICKER?
| 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 ICKER is to know. It scores 11 from 5 tiles, takes 13 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ICKER
Front hooks — 12
bickerBack hooks — 1
ickersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ICKER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ICKER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does ICKER mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A single ear of corn or of another cereal grain.
An icker is one head of a cereal plant, the part that carries the seed at the top of the stalk, and the word survives mainly in Scots farming speech rather than standard English. Older poems and rural records count a harvest by the icker where a modern writer would simply say ear of corn. The word has no single common English equivalent of its own.
How ICKER is used
Scots dialect, chiefly in older farming and poetic contexts rather than everyday speech.
- Not a single icker was left standing after the storm.
- The old rhyme counts every icker gathered before the frost.
- She pulled one heavy icker from the bundled sheaf.
- A blighted icker was tossed aside by the reaper.
- The farmer measured the harvest by counting each icker.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ICKER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ICKER
The 5 tiles of ICKER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ICKER
1 longer words begin with ICKER.
Words ending in ICKER
Showing 24 of 55 words that end in ICKER. Useful as a back hook: play ICKER onto a word already on the board.
Words with ICKER inside
Showing 24 of 118 words that contain ICKER somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ICKER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ICKER
Common questions about ICKER
- Is ICKER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ICKER, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ICKER worth?
- ICKER is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ICKER mean?
- A single ear of corn or of another cereal grain.
- What letters can be added to ICKER?
- ICKER takes 13 hooks: 12 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ICKER:
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