CREE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. CREE 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 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept CREE?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CREE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 6 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CREE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CREE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CREE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,951.
What does CREE mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To soften grain by boiling or soaking, in Scots dialect usage.
Cooks used cree mainly for barley and other grains, letting them sit in hot water until the hard husks loosened and softened enough to eat. The word belongs to older Scots kitchen vocabulary and differs entirely from the unrelated proper noun referring to an Indigenous Canadian people and their language.
How CREE is used
Found mainly in older Scots dialect and cookery writing.
- She let the barley cree overnight before cooking the broth.
- The recipe says to cree the oats until they turn soft.
- Grandmother always crees the pot before dawn.
- You must cree the grain properly or the porridge turns gritty.
- He forgot to cree the peas and they stayed hard in the pot.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CREE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CREE
The 4 tiles of CREE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CREE
Showing 24 of 49 words that begin with CREE.
Words ending in CREE
2 words end in CREE. Useful as a back hook: play CREE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CREE inside
Showing 24 of 141 words that contain CREE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CREE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CREE
Common questions about CREE
- Is CREE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CREE is not in it.
- How many points is CREE worth?
- CREE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CREE mean?
- To soften grain by boiling or soaking, in Scots dialect usage.
- What letters can be added to CREE?
- CREE takes 6 hooks: 1 in front and 5 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CREE:
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