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TICKS

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

TICKS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

TICKS root TICK-s

Word family

TICK 1 TICKING-ing 5 TICKED-ed 3

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

TICKLY 3 TICKINGS 11
noun
  1. A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
  2. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
    • The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
  3. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
    • At midday, the long bond is up a tick.
  4. A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
  5. colloquialA short period of time, particularly a second.
    • I'll be back in a tick.
  6. A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
  7. Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
  8. CommonwealthA mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness, or acknowledgement.
    • Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
  9. A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
  10. A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
  11. A tap or light touch.
  12. A slight speck.
  13. uncountableTicking.
  14. countableuncountableA sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
  15. UKcolloquialuncountableCredit, trust.
  16. obsoleteA goat.
    • Tickhill, Tickham, Ticknock, Tickenhall Drive, Tickenhill Manor, Tickenhurst
verb
  1. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
  2. To make a tick or checkmark.
  3. informalintransitiveTo work or operate, especially mechanically.
    • He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.
    • I wonder what makes her tick.
  4. To strike gently; to pat.
  5. transitiveTo add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
  6. intransitiveTo go on trust, or credit.
  7. transitiveTo give tick; to trust.