LEVEE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LEVEE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LEVEE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful LEVEE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 8.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEVEE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LEVEE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in LEVEE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 42,777.
What does LEVEE mean in Scrabble?
noun
An embankment built along a river to prevent it from overflowing and flooding the surrounding land.
A levee is usually made of packed earth or concrete and runs parallel to a riverbank, raising its effective height so that floodwater is contained within the channel during storms or snowmelt. Levees can fail or be overtopped in severe floods, sometimes with disastrous results for the towns behind them, as happened along the Mississippi River. The same word was also historically used for a formal reception held by a monarch or dignitary shortly after rising in the morning, a sense now largely limited to history books.
How LEVEE is used
Countable noun; most common in American English discussion of river flooding and flood control.
- Engineers reinforced the levee before the spring floods.
- The river broke through the levee and swamped the fields.
- Volunteers stacked sandbags along the levee all night.
- The old levee had protected the town for a century.
- Historians described the king's morning levee in detail.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEVEE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with LEVEE
3 longer words begin with LEVEE.
Shorter words from the letters in LEVEE
Common questions about LEVEE
- Is LEVEE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LEVEE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LEVEE worth?
- LEVEE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEVEE mean?
- An embankment built along a river to prevent it from overflowing and flooding the surrounding land.
- What letters can be added to LEVEE?
- LEVEE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of LEVEE:
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