CLOVE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CLOVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CLOVE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLOVE is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLOVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLOVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CLOVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 49,015.
What does CLOVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The dried, unopened flower bud of a tropical tree, used whole or ground as a strong, sweet-hot spice.
A clove is picked while still a tight, reddish bud, then dried until it turns dark brown and hard enough to be pressed whole into a ham or ground into powder for baking. Cooks also use the word clove for one of the small individual segments that make up a whole bulb of garlic, a completely different plant part that simply shares the name because of its similar wedge shape. Less commonly, clove appears as the archaic past tense of the verb cleave, so an old text might say a tongue clove to the roof of a mouth, meaning it stuck fast.
How CLOVE is used
A common word in cooking, referring both to the dried spice bud and to a single segment of a garlic bulb.
- She pressed a clove into the ham before roasting it.
- The recipe calls for one clove of garlic, finely chopped.
- Warm cider is often spiced with cinnamon and clove.
- He peeled a single clove and dropped it into the pan.
- The smell of clove filled the kitchen while the pie baked.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLOVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CLOVE
14 longer words begin with CLOVE.
Words with CLOVE inside
1 words contain CLOVE in the middle. Words that start with CLOVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CLOVE
Common questions about CLOVE
- Is CLOVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CLOVE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CLOVE worth?
- CLOVE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLOVE mean?
- The dried, unopened flower bud of a tropical tree, used whole or ground as a strong, sweet-hot spice.
- What letters can be added to CLOVE?
- CLOVE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CLOVE:
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