TICAL is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. TICAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept TICAL?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TICAL is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TICAL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ticalsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How TICAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TICAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 19,364.
What stands out about TICAL
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does TICAL mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A former unit of currency and weight used in Siam (now Thailand), later replaced as a coin by the baht.
Merchants and officials in old Siam used the tical both as a silver coin and as a unit for weighing precious metal, so the same word covered a piece of money and the standard against which its worth was measured. In 1928 the kingdom formally renamed its currency the baht, and tical faded from official use while surviving in older records, atlases, and accounts of nineteenth-century trade with the region. Some neighboring areas also borrowed the term loosely for their own coinage and weights of a similar size.
How TICAL is used
Encountered mainly in historical accounts of Southeast Asian trade and in older reference works, not in modern currency.
- The old ledger recorded the price in tical rather than baht.
- A trader in old Siam might carry a purse full of tical coins.
- The museum label explained that one tical equaled a fixed weight of silver.
- Historians converted the tical figures into modern currency for comparison.
- The treaty listed payments in tical according to nineteenth-century custom.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TICAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of TICAL
The 5 tiles of TICAL in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with TICAL
1 longer words begin with TICAL.
Words ending in TICAL
Showing 24 of 426 words that end in TICAL. Useful as a back hook: play TICAL onto a word already on the board.
Words with TICAL inside
Showing 24 of 599 words that contain TICAL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with TICAL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TICAL
Common questions about TICAL
- Is TICAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts TICAL, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is TICAL worth?
- TICAL is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TICAL mean?
- A former unit of currency and weight used in Siam (now Thailand), later replaced as a coin by the baht.
- What letters can be added to TICAL?
- TICAL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TICAL:
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