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Is clayey a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clayey is a Scrabble US word. The word clayey is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is clayey a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clayey is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

C3L1A1Y4E1Y4

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

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6-letter words (1 found)

CLAYEY,

5-letter words (2 found)

LACEY,LYCEA,

4-letter words (6 found)

ACYL,ALEC,CLAY,LACE,LACY,YALE,

3-letter words (15 found)

ACE,ALE,AYE,CAL,CAY,CEL,CLY,LAC,LAY,LEA,LEY,LYE,YAE,YAY,YEA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AL,AY,EA,EL,LA,YA,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 33 words from clayey according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of clayey

clayey

Etymology

From Middle English cleii, cleyye (“clayish; messy; unclean”) [and other forms], either:

  • from Middle English clei, cley (“clay; clayey soil; clay-containing material used as mortar or plaster”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives); clei, cley is derived from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to smear; to stick; glue; putty”); or
  • from Old English clǣig (“clayey”), from clǣġ (“clay”) (see above) + -iġ (suffix forming adjectives).

The English word is equivalent to clay +‎ -ey (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), with the -e- included to avoid the occurrence of -yy.

Sense 4 (“of the human body, as contrasted with the soul”) may allude to the biblical account of God creating man from earth; see Genesis 2:7 (King James Version; spelling modernized): “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.”

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkleɪ(j)i/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkleɪi/
  • Rhymes: -eɪi
  • Hyphenation: clay‧ey

Adjective

clayey (comparative clayier, superlative clayiest)

  1. Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish.
    Synonyms: argillaceous, argillous
    Antonyms: nonclayey, unclayed
  2. Covered or dirtied with clay.
  3. Resembling clay; claylike, clayish.
    Synonym: bolar
    Antonym: nonclayey
  4. (figuratively) Of the human body, as contrasted with the soul; bodily, human, mortal.

Derived terms

  • clayeyness
  • nonclayey

Related terms

  • clayed
  • clayishness
  • unclayed

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References

Further reading

  • clay on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Cayley

Source: wiktionary.org