CORVEE is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. CORVEE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CORVEE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CORVEE is to know. It scores 11 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CORVEE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
corveesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CORVEE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CORVEE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 94,070.
What does CORVEE mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
Unpaid labour that a lord or the state could demand from those beneath them, such as work on roads, in place of taxes.
The corvee was a feature of feudal Europe and of France before the Revolution, where peasants were called out for a set number of days each year to mend roads and bridges. The word was borrowed from French and has a Latin root meaning requested work. It is also used figuratively for any dull task that has to be done without reward.
How CORVEE is used
Mainly historical, sometimes used loosely for an unpleasant unpaid chore.
- The villagers owed the estate a corvee of six days each spring.
- Historians describe the royal corvee as a hated burden on the poor.
- Mending the lane was a corvee nobody wanted.
- He treated the weekly paperwork as an unpaid corvee.
- The reform replaced the old road corvee with a tax.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CORVEE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CORVEE
1 longer words begin with CORVEE.
Shorter words from the letters in CORVEE
Common questions about CORVEE
- Is CORVEE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CORVEE, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CORVEE worth?
- CORVEE is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CORVEE mean?
- Unpaid labour that a lord or the state could demand from those beneath them, such as work on roads, in place of taxes.
- What letters can be added to CORVEE?
- CORVEE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CORVEE:
Open CORVEE in the Word Finder