CLEVE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. CLEVE is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CLEVE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLEVE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLEVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLEVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CLEVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 71,295.
What does CLEVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A cliff or steep hillside, chiefly in English dialect and place names.
Cleve comes from the same Old English root as cliff and survives today mostly in regional dialect speech and in place names built on it, most famously in Cleveland. Villages sitting under such a landform often took their names from it, so the word lives on today far more often in maps and surnames than in ordinary conversation.
How CLEVE is used
Regional dialect and place-name element; rare outside local speech and older texts.
- The path climbs steeply up the cleve above the river.
- Local dialect still calls the steep bank a cleve.
- Sheep graze the grassy cleve behind the old farmhouse.
- The village sits below a wooded cleve overlooking the valley.
- Older maps mark the cleve where the road once ended.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLEVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CLEVE
14 longer words begin with CLEVE.
Words with CLEVE inside
1 words contain CLEVE in the middle. Words that start with CLEVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CLEVE
Common questions about CLEVE
- Is CLEVE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CLEVE is not in it.
- How many points is CLEVE worth?
- CLEVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLEVE mean?
- A cliff or steep hillside, chiefly in English dialect and place names.
- What letters can be added to CLEVE?
- CLEVE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CLEVE:
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