SLIPE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SLIPE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SLIPE?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SLIPE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SLIPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SLIPE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SLIPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SLIPE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 6 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SLIPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The wool pulled from the pelt of a slaughtered sheep, as distinguished from wool shorn from a living animal.
A slipe is taken after the animal has already been killed, using a process that loosens the fleece at the roots so it can be lifted or scraped away from the hide rather than cut away with shears. Tanners and dealers keep slipe separate from ordinary clip in trade records, since the two are handled differently and can differ in quality and price. The same word is also used in mining for a sloping underground haulage way, or the sledge that runs along it, an entirely separate sense that shares only the spelling. Merchants in sheep-farming regions such as South Africa and Australia still use slipe as routine trade vocabulary for fleece taken from a dead animal's skin.
How SLIPE is used
A specialist term from the wool trade, describing wool pulled from a dead animal's pelt rather than shorn wool.
- The tannery separated slipe from the regular shorn wool before sale.
- Merchants recorded the weight of slipe delivered from the abattoir.
- Wool buyers paid a lower price for slipe than for shorn fleece.
- The old ledger listed bales of slipe alongside ordinary wool.
- In the mine, a narrow slipe carried loaded wagons down to the shaft.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SLIPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SLIPE
The 5 tiles of SLIPE in a different order — 6 found.
Words starting with SLIPE
2 longer words begin with SLIPE.
Shorter words from the letters in SLIPE
Common questions about SLIPE
- Is SLIPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SLIPE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SLIPE worth?
- SLIPE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SLIPE mean?
- The wool pulled from the pelt of a slaughtered sheep, as distinguished from wool shorn from a living animal.
- What letters can be added to SLIPE?
- SLIPE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SLIPE:
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