Sikes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Sikes (eikss).
1300-50; Middle English Old Norse sīk small stream, ditch, pond, cognate with Old English sīc (now sitch) rill, Middle Low German sīk puddle; akin to Old High German seih urine, Old English s
Page 50, changed "even raughed" to "even laughed" and "sike's case" to "sikes case."
As to the name Well-syke, “sike” is an old term for a “beck,” or small running stream.
A very brief exercise of Mr. sike's art, sufficed to overcome the fastening of the lattice; and it soon stood wide open also.
If them as is left, should know waat's coom tiv'un, there'll be sike a revolution and rebel!
Tarn (a mountain pool), grain and sike (mountain streams) are also Scandinavian terms.