Is CLERIHEW a word?
CLERIHEW is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words With Friends, has 8 letters, and can be rearranged into 0 other words, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, CLERIHEW is a valid word.
What does clerihew mean?
noun: a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.
“`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
CLERIHEW: word details
- Length: 8 letters, a long word. It is one of 40,530 8-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 16 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 17 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Shorter words inside clerihew
Words you can make from the letters of clerihew.
Solve a whole rack, not just CLERIHEW
CLERIHEW is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does CLERIHEW mean?
CLERIHEW is a noun. It means: a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.
Is CLERIHEW a valid word?
Yes, CLERIHEW is a valid word. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.