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Is alewife a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word alewife is a Scrabble US word. The word alewife is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is alewife a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word alewife is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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Is alewife a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word alewife is a Words With Friends word. The word alewife is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

ALEWIFE,

5-letter words (2 found)

AWEEL,WALIE,

4-letter words (30 found)

ALEE,ALEF,ALEW,ALIF,AWEE,EALE,FAIL,FEAL,FEEL,FILA,FILE,FLAW,FLEA,FLEE,FLEW,ILEA,LEAF,LIEF,LIFE,LWEI,WAIF,WAIL,WALE,WALI,WEAL,WEEL,WEIL,WIEL,WIFE,WILE,

3-letter words (24 found)

AIL,ALE,ALF,AWE,AWL,EEL,EEW,ELF,EWE,FAE,FAW,FEE,FEW,FIE,FIL,LAW,LEA,LEE,LEI,LEW,LIE,WAE,WAI,WEE,

2-letter words (15 found)

AE,AI,AL,AW,EA,EE,EF,EL,EW,FA,FE,IF,LA,LI,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 73 words from alewife according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of alewife

alewife

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈeɪlwʌɪf/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈeɪlˌwaɪf/
  • Rhymes: -eɪlwʌɪf, -eɪlwaɪf

Etymology 1

ale +‎ wife.

Noun

alewife (plural alewives)

  1. (archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Synonyms
  • brewess
Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown. Possibly from aloof, the Narragansett name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, “Phil Trans.” No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii. p. 131.

Possibly from allowes (“a type of shad”), from French alose (“shad”), from Old French [Term?], from Late Latin alausa, influenced by Etymology 1 due to large belly of the fish.

Noun

alewife (plural alewives)

  1. A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
    • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.
      I saw in Cohasset, separated from the sea only by a narrow beach, a handsome but shallow lake of some four hundred acres […] , and, after the alewives had passed into it, it had stopped up its outlet, and now the alewives were dying by thousands, and the inhabitants were apprehending a pestilence as the water evaporated.
  2. Any of several species similar in appearance.
Synonyms
  • (Alosa pseudoharengus): branch herring, ellwhop, ellwife, (Canada) gaspereau
Derived terms
  • Alewife Brook
Translations

References

  • alewife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Alosa pseudoharengus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Alosa pseudoharengus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Source: wiktionary.org