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tickle

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Is tickle a Scrabble word?

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

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

What is the meaning of tickle?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (cricket, informal) A light tap of the ball.Examples: "There's a very fine line between a tickle and an edge!"informal

2. (Newfoundland) A narrow strait, such as between an island and the shore.Examples: "Charts and Plans. [...] No. New Charts. 2253 England, and south coast—Dartmouth harbour. [...] 3320 Newfoundland, Thimble tickles and Glover harbour—Head of Seal bay."; "Cow Head itself is a prominent headland connected to the settlement by a natural causeway, or ‘tickle’ as the Newfoundlanders prefer it."Newfoundland

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which typically causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.Examples: "He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle."; "If you tickle us, do we not laugh?"transitive

2. (intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.Examples: "My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!"intransitive

3. (transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.transitive

4. (transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.Examples: "He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift."; "Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw."; "Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon."transitive

5. (intransitive) To feel titillation.Examples: "He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein."intransitive

6. (transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.transitive

adj (English)

1. (obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.Examples: "So ticle be the termes of mortall state, And full of subtile sophismes, which do play With double senses, and with false debate […]"obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "tickle"?

Scrabble
12 points
T1
I1
C3
K5
L1
E1
Words With Friends
14 points
T1
I1
C4
K5
L2
E1

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