Tykes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 48 anagrams from letters in tykes (eksty).
1350-1400; Middle English Old Norse tīk bitch
She remembered how wise and tempered Jake had seemed when she gazed into his eyes, even when he was the tiniest of tykes.
It's the same wi' Wullie and the tykes—they're doon on him same as men are on me.
And there is a saying in the land: "Faithfu' as the Moores and their tykes."
"They say we Yorkshire tykes are a rough lot," said Herrick, smiling, and she took up the challenge at once.
You reach the scene of action; the badger is before, half a score of tykes around, and the yokels behind you.
It tykes more'n twiddley little bits er lights ter scare James Collins, I tells yer.
This represents a common pleasantry at the font among the “tykes,” but is necessarily modern.
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