GLEET is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. GLEET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GLEET?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GLEET is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GLEET
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GLEET scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in GLEET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 15,843.
What does GLEET mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalarchaic
A thin, watery discharge from a wound or bodily passage, especially a lingering discharge from the urethra following gonorrhea, or, in farriery, a similar discharge from a horse's hoof.
In older medical writing, gleet referred to a persistent thin discharge that continued after the main symptoms of a urethral infection such as gonorrhea had faded, and doctors used the term to describe a lingering, watery drip rather than a thick pus. Veterinary manuals also spoke of gleet in horses, describing a similar oozing discharge from a diseased frog or heel of the hoof. The word survives today mostly in historical medical texts and in specialist farriery vocabulary rather than in everyday speech.
How GLEET is used
Rare and largely historical; found in older medical and veterinary texts rather than modern clinical language.
- The old medical text described gleet as a thin discharge that lingered after infection.
- The farrier noted a gleet coming from the horse's injured heel.
- Victorian doctors treated gleet with astringent lotions.
- The manual warned that untreated gleet could become chronic.
- Nineteenth-century case notes mention gleet far more often than modern journals do.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GLEET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GLEET
6 longer words begin with GLEET.
Shorter words from the letters in GLEET
Common questions about GLEET
- Is GLEET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GLEET, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GLEET worth?
- GLEET is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GLEET mean?
- A thin, watery discharge from a wound or bodily passage, especially a lingering discharge from the urethra following gonorrhea, or, in farriery, a similar discharge from a horse's hoof.
- What letters can be added to GLEET?
- GLEET takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of GLEET:
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