SAICE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SAICE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SAICE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SAICE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SAICE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
saicesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SAICE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SAICE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does SAICE mean in Scrabble?
noun
Indian English
A groom or attendant employed to look after and drive horses, especially in the Indian subcontinent.
A saice took care of a household's horses day to day, feeding and grooming them and often running alongside a carriage or riding behind a mounted employer to be ready at a moment's notice. The word entered English during the colonial period in South Asia and is more commonly spelled syce today, with saice standing as an accepted older variant of the same word. Both spellings ultimately trace back through Arabic to a term meaning one who tends or drives, reflecting the role's mix of stable work and everyday transport duty. The job largely disappeared with the rise of the motor car, so saice now appears mainly in older writing about colonial-era India.
How SAICE is used
A historical Anglo-Indian term, now more often spelled syce; met mainly in older accounts of colonial-era South Asia.
- The saice led the horses out of the stable at first light.
- A saice ran alongside the carriage, ready to take the reins at any stop.
- Old letters from the household described paying the saice his monthly wage.
- The novel's saice knew every horse in the stable by name and temper.
- Without a trained saice, the family struggled to keep the horses properly fed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SAICE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SAICE
1 longer words begin with SAICE.
Shorter words from the letters in SAICE
Common questions about SAICE
- Is SAICE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SAICE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SAICE worth?
- SAICE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SAICE mean?
- A groom or attendant employed to look after and drive horses, especially in the Indian subcontinent.
- What letters can be added to SAICE?
- SAICE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SAICE:
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