SIEVE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SIEVE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SIEVE?
| 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 SIEVE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SIEVE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SIEVE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SIEVE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 15,843.
What does SIEVE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A tool with a mesh or perforated surface used to separate solid particles from liquid or to separate finer material from coarser material; also used as a verb meaning to pass something through such a tool.
A cook uses a kitchen sieve to strain lumps from a sauce or to sift flour into a fine, even texture before baking, relying on the mesh to hold back anything too large to pass through. Gardeners and builders use a coarser sieve to separate stones from soil or sand, choosing a mesh size suited to whatever needs to be filtered out. The common idiom a memory like a sieve compares an especially forgetful mind to a sieve that lets everything of substance slip straight through, retaining almost nothing. Archaeologists also sieve excavated soil carefully by hand, a slow process that lets them recover small artefacts that would otherwise be missed entirely.
How SIEVE is used
Common in everyday kitchen and gardening use, and in the idiom a memory like a sieve for someone especially forgetful.
- She pressed the raspberries through a fine sieve to remove the seeds.
- Builders used a sieve to separate stones from the sand.
- His memory was like a sieve, and he forgot the appointment again.
- They sieved the soil carefully in search of small artefacts.
- Flour passed through the sieve left no lumps in the batter.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SIEVE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SIEVE
5 longer words begin with SIEVE.
Words with SIEVE inside
2 words contain SIEVE in the middle. Words that start with SIEVE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SIEVE
Common questions about SIEVE
- Is SIEVE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SIEVE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SIEVE worth?
- SIEVE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SIEVE mean?
- A tool with a mesh or perforated surface used to separate solid particles from liquid or to separate finer material from coarser material; also used as a verb meaning to pass something through such a tool.
- What letters can be added to SIEVE?
- SIEVE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SIEVE:
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