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Is chief a Scrabble word?

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

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Is chief a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3H4I1E1F4

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Yes. The word chief is a Words With Friends word. The word chief is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

CHIEF,FICHE,

4-letter words (2 found)

CHEF,FICE,

3-letter words (9 found)

CHE,CHI,ECH,FEH,FIE,HIC,HIE,ICE,ICH,

2-letter words (7 found)

CH,EF,EH,FE,HE,HI,IF,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 21 words from chief according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of chief

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Definitions and meaning of chief

chief

Etymology

From Middle English cheef, chef, from the current french word Chef, chief (“leader”), from Vulgar Latin capus (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (English cap (“head covering”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head). Doublet of chef.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃiːf/
  • Rhymes: -iːf

Noun

chief (plural chiefs)

  2. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. [from 13th c.]
  3. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. [from 15th c.]
  4. The principal part or top of anything.
  5. (sometimes ironic) An informal term of address.
    1. (US, Canada, offensive) An informal term of address for a Native American or First Nations man.

Synonyms

  • chieftain
  • See also Thesaurus:boss

Hyponyms

  • chiefess (female chief)

Derived terms

Pages starting with “chief”.

Related terms

  • captain
  • chef
  • chieftain

Descendants

  • → Japanese: チーフ (chīfu)
  • → Swahili: chifu

Translations

Adjective

chief (comparative chiefer or more chief, superlative chiefest or most chief)

  1. Primary; principal.
  2. (Scotland) Intimate, friendly.

Translations

Verb

chief (third-person singular simple present chiefs, present participle chiefing, simple past and past participle chiefed)

  1. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.
    • 2012, Marquis "Cream" Cureton, When the Smoke Clears (page 268)
      He chiefed on the bud like a pro, taking long deep hits and holding it within until he had inhaled as much of the weed smoke as he could.

See also

  • chef

Anagrams

  • cheif, fiche, fiché

Middle English

Noun

chief

  1. Alternative form of chef

Adjective

chief

  1. Alternative form of chef

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chief.

Noun

chief m (plural chiefs)

  1. head

Descendants

  • French: chef (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Alternative forms

  • cap (Occitanism found in La Vie de Saint Léger, circa 980)
  • chef, cief

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃjeːf/

Noun

chief oblique singular, m (oblique plural chiés, nominative singular chiés, nominative plural chief)

  1. (anatomy) head
  2. leader, chief
  3. front (foremost side of something)

Descendants

  • Middle French: chief
    • French: chef (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: chef
  • → Middle English: chef
    • English: chief
    • Scots: chief
  • → Old Spanish: xefe
    • Spanish: jefe, gefe; xefe
      • → English: jefe
      • → Bikol Central: hepe
      • → Cebuano: hepe
      • → Tagalog: hepe
    • → Asturian: xefe
    • → Galician: xefe
    • → Portuguese: chefe

Source: wiktionary.org