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What does cleg mean? Is cleg a Scrabble word?

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Is cleg a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cleg is a Scrabble US word. The word cleg is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

C3L1E1G2

Is cleg a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cleg is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

C3L1E1G2

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4-letter words (1 found)

CLEG,

3-letter words (3 found)

CEL,GEL,LEG,

2-letter words (1 found)

EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from cleg according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of cleg

cleg lceg celg eclg lecg elcg clge lcge cgle gcle lgce glce cegl ecgl cgel gcel egcl gecl legc elgc lgec glec eglc gelc

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word cleg. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in cleg.

Definitions and meaning of cleg

cleg

Alternative forms

  • clegg, gleg

Etymology

From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg, Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɛɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ
  • Homophone: Clegg

Noun

cleg (plural clegs)

  1. (now dialectal) A light breeze.
  2. (Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.

Synonyms

  • (blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae): blind-fly (Central Africa), deer fly (genus Chrysops), gadfly, horsefly, tabanid

Further reading

  • “cleg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1144, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1144

Anagrams

  • CGEL

Source: wiktionary.org