Alcaics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 112 anagrams from letters in Alcaics (aaccils).
1620-30; Late Latin Alcaicus Greek Alkaïkós, equivalent to Alka(îos) Alcaeus + -ikos -ic
Somewhat as in the Greek Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the wave that falls over in the last.
The model of this variety is not to be found in any of the Alcaic or Tyrtæan remains.
As a boy of sixteen, he wrote verses in the Alcaic and Asclepiadeian measures, and soon acquired a considerable mastery over them.
He used to say, “The Horatian Alcaic is, perhaps, the stateliest metre except the Virgilian hexameter at its best.”
On the other hand, we can find scarcely an ode in the Sapphic or Alcaic metre, which does not clearly betray its modern origin.
Of these, four are in hendecasyllabics, one in the Alcaic and one in the Sapphic stanza.
Virgilius Mars wrote in hexameters; Horatius Flaccus in Alcaic, sapphic, and anapestic verse.
Thus, there is as much artificiality about a stanza of Chinese verse as there is about an Alcaic stanza in Latin.