RICK is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. RICK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RICK?
| 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: 55 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RICK is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 7 hooks, and its letters make up 4.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RICK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RICK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in RICK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 36,308.
What does RICK mean in Scrabble?
noun
A stack of hay or straw.
Rick also means to wrench a joint slightly, and that is a separate word, probably a variant of wrick. A hay rick was thatched to keep rain out and built deliberately to shed water.
How RICK is used
Countable. Also a verb in an unrelated sense.
- A rick was thatched and a stack was not.
- He ricked his neck reaching for the top shelf.
- The word rick covers a haystack and a wrench.
- Two ricks in the same field and one of them leaning.
- A rick sheds water because of how it is built.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RICK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RICK
Showing 24 of 41 words that begin with RICK.
Words ending in RICK
Showing 24 of 30 words that end in RICK. Useful as a back hook: play RICK onto a word already on the board.
Words with RICK inside
Showing 24 of 185 words that contain RICK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RICK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RICK
Common questions about RICK
- Is RICK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RICK, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RICK worth?
- RICK is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RICK mean?
- A stack of hay or straw.
- What letters can be added to RICK?
- RICK takes 7 hooks: 6 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of RICK:
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