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Is fleece a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fleece is a Scrabble US word. The word fleece is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is fleece a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fleece is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

FLEECE,

4-letter words (3 found)

CLEF,FEEL,FLEE,

3-letter words (6 found)

CEE,CEL,EEL,ELF,FEE,LEE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EF,EL,FE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from fleece according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fleece

fleece

Etymology

From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fliːs/
  • Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)

  1. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
  2. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
  3. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
  4. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
  5. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
  6. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
  7. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Derived terms

  • China fleece vine (Polygonum aubertii)
  • feather fleece (Stenanthium robustum)
  • fleeceflower (Fallopia spp., Persicaria spp., Polygonum spp.)
  • fleeceless
  • fleece vine (Polygonum aubertii)
  • fleecewear
  • fleece wool
  • fleece worm (Phormia regina etc.)
  • fleecy
  • Golden Fleece
  • green fleece (Codium fragile)
  • smooth golden fleece (Urospermum dalechampii)

Translations

Verb

fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)

  1. (transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
  2. (transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
  3. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.

Translations

See also

  • (con): nickel and dime

References

  • “fleece”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • fleece on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfliːsi/, [ˈfliːs̠i]
  • IPA(key): /ˈfliːs/, [ˈfliːs̠] (often in compound terms)
  • IPA(key): /ˈfleːse/, [ˈfle̞ːs̠e̞] (dated)

Noun

fleece

  1. Unadapted alternative form of fliisi (“fleece, fleece coat”).

Usage notes

  • As is the case with many loanwords, the inflection of this term is problematic. Kotus recommends using the "nalle" category in writing, as shown above, but in speech the declension usually follows the "risti" category; see the declension table for fliisi.

Declension

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Further reading

  • “fleece”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Middle English

Noun

fleece

  1. Alternative form of flees

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fleece.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /fliːs/

Noun

fleece c

  1. polar fleece

Declension

References

  • fleece in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • fleece in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Source: wiktionary.org