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Is pick a Scrabble word?

Yes, pick is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of pick?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (nautical, slang) An anchor.Examples: "It's better to amble around, drop the "pick" for a lunchtime swim or beachcomb, then find a nice anchorage for the night."slang

2. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

3. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.Examples: "Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't."obsolete

4. (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.Examples: "‘She's all African grass and Brahmans. There's not a blade of native pick left, except on the ridges.’"; "The judicious use of fire could have protected valuable nut trees, promoted the growth and seeding of grass and, if practised at a distance from their camps, even attracted herbivores to the sweet young pick."Australia

5. (basketball) A screen.

6. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.transitive

2. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.Examples: "He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled."

3. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.Examples: "He picked a tune on his banjo."

4. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.Examples: "as high as I could pick my lance"Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dashobsolete

5. (dated, transitive) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.datedtransitive

6. (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.Examples: "to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc."; "Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track."ambitransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "pick"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "pick"?

Scrabble
12 points
P3
I1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
14 points
P4
I1
C4
K5

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