CLUEY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. CLUEY 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 CLUEY?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLUEY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLUEY
No single letter turns CLUEY into another word.
How CLUEY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CLUEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does CLUEY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
AustralianNew Zealandinformal
Well-informed, alert and quick to understand; having a clue.
Cluey grew directly out of the informal phrase have a clue, with the ending -y turning the noun clue into a word describing a person. It is heard mainly in Australia and New Zealand, where it describes someone sharp and switched-on, unlikely to be caught out by a tricky question. The opposite, clueless, took the same base word in the other direction and spread far more widely through English, while cluey stayed a local favourite.
How CLUEY is used
Informal; heard in Australian and New Zealand speech more than in print.
- The new hire turned out to be cluey about the whole system within a week.
- A cluey shopper checks the unit price, not just the sticker.
- She gave a cluey answer that showed she had read the report closely.
- He is cluey enough to spot a scam before anyone else does.
- The word cluey never really caught on outside Australia and New Zealand.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLUEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in CLUEY
Common questions about CLUEY
- Is CLUEY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CLUEY is not in it.
- How many points is CLUEY worth?
- CLUEY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLUEY mean?
- Well-informed, alert and quick to understand; having a clue.
- What letters can be added to CLUEY?
- No single letter can be added to CLUEY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CLUEY:
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