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Is grief a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word grief is a Scrabble US word. The word grief is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is grief a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word grief is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Yes. The word grief is a Words With Friends word. The word grief is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

GRIEF,

4-letter words (6 found)

FIER,FIRE,FRIG,REFI,REIF,RIFE,

3-letter words (16 found)

ERF,ERG,FEG,FER,FIE,FIG,FIR,GER,GIE,GIF,IRE,REF,REG,REI,RIF,RIG,

2-letter words (6 found)

EF,ER,FE,GI,IF,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 30 words from grief according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of grief

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Definitions and meaning of grief

grief

Alternative forms

  • greefe (obsolete), griefe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

grief (countable and uncountable, plural griefs or grieves)

  1. Suffering, hardship. [from early 13th c.]
  2. Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
  3. (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)

  1. (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so. [from late 1990s]

Usage notes

  • This verb is most commonly found in the gerund-participle griefing and the derived noun griefer.

Related terms

  • grievance
  • grieve
  • grievous

Further reading

  • grief on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • griefer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “grief”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “grief”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “grief”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch grief, from Old French grief, from Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣrif/
  • Hyphenation: grief
  • Rhymes: -if

Noun

grief f (plural grieven, diminutive griefje n)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) grievance, complaint, bone to pick, issue

Derived terms

  • grieven

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French grief, from Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem. Doublet of grave, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁi.jɛf/

Adjective

grief (feminine griève, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grièves)

  1. (archaic, literary) grievous

Derived terms

  • grièvement

Noun

grief m (plural griefs)

  1. complaint
  2. grief
  3. grievance (formal complaint filed with an authority)

Further reading

  • “grief”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • figer

Ladin

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.

Adjective

grief m (feminine singular grieva, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grieves)

  1. arduous
  2. difficult
  3. steep

Old French

Alternative forms

  • gref (typically Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem.

Noun

grief oblique singular, m (oblique plural griés, nominative singular griés, nominative plural grief)

  1. pain; anguish; suffering

Descendants

  • French: grief
  • → Middle Dutch: grief
    • Dutch: grief
  • → Middle English: greef, gref
    • English: grief

Adjective

grief m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grieve)

  1. sad

Descendants

  • French: grief (archaic, literary)

Source: wiktionary.org