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...and is worth 11 points by itself.
tick
noun
1. A cloth case for a mattress or pillow.
2. A light mark used to check off or call attention to an item.
3. A light mattress without inner springs.
4. A light, sharp, clicking sound made repeatedly by a machine, such as a clock.
5. Any of numerous small bloodsucking parasitic arachnids of the family Ixodidae, many of which transmit febrile diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.
phrasal-verb
1. Tick off Informal To make angry or annoyed: Constant delays ticked me off.
verb
1. To touch with a momentary glancing blow .
2. To mark with a written tick .
3. To mark, count, or announce by or as if by beats .
4. To operate as a functioning mechanism .
5. To make the sound of a tick or a series of .
verb-intransitive
1. To emit recurring clicking sounds: as the clock ticked.
2. To function characteristically or well: machines ticking away; curious about what makes people tick.
verb-transitive
1. To count or record with or as if with the sound of ticks: a clock ticking the hours; a taxi meter ticking the fare.
2. To mark or check off (a listed item) with a tick: ticked off each name as the roll was called.
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Top Words by points |
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Word Game |
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tick | 10 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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it | 2 |
ki | 6 |
ti | 2 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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ick | 9 |
kit | 7 |
tic | 5 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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tick | 10 |