TICKY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. TICKY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept TICKY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 38 / 100
Our own measure of how useful TICKY is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for TICKY
Front hooks — 1
stickyBack hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How TICKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in TICKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does TICKY mean in Scrabble?
noun
South Africanhistoricalinformal
A former South African coin worth three pence, used before decimal currency was introduced.
A ticky was the everyday name for the small silver three-penny piece once used in South Africa, a coin small enough that its name became a byword for something of very little value. The word survives now mainly in older speech and in phrases recalling the pre-decimal currency, since South Africa moved to a decimal system in the 1960s and the coin itself went out of circulation. Ticky is also spelled tickey in some sources, both naming the same small coin.
How TICKY is used
Historical South African informal term, remembered from before decimal currency replaced the old coins.
- He still remembered buying sweets for a ticky as a child.
- The old ticky was worth almost nothing by the time it was withdrawn.
- She kept a ticky from her grandfather's coin collection.
- A loaf of bread once cost only a few ticky pieces.
- The museum displayed a ticky alongside other retired coins.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of TICKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in TICKY
7 words end in TICKY. Useful as a back hook: play TICKY onto a word already on the board.
Words with TICKY inside
5 words contain TICKY in the middle. Words that start with TICKY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in TICKY
Common questions about TICKY
- Is TICKY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and TICKY is not in it.
- How many points is TICKY worth?
- TICKY is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does TICKY mean?
- A former South African coin worth three pence, used before decimal currency was introduced.
- What letters can be added to TICKY?
- TICKY takes 1 hook: 1 in front and 0 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of TICKY:
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