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Is screeve a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word screeve is a Scrabble US word. The word screeve is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

S1C3R1E1E1V4E1

Is screeve a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word screeve is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

S1C3R1E1E1V4E1

Is screeve a Words With Friends word?

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7-letter words (1 found)

SCREEVE,

6-letter words (3 found)

CREESE,REEVES,SEVERE,

5-letter words (10 found)

CERES,CREES,EREVS,REEVE,RESEE,SCREE,SERVE,SEVER,VEERS,VERSE,

4-letter words (15 found)

CEES,CERE,CREE,ERES,EREV,EVER,EVES,RECS,REES,REVS,SEER,SERE,VEER,VEES,VERS,

3-letter words (13 found)

CEE,ERE,ERS,EVE,REC,REE,RES,REV,SEC,SEE,SER,SEV,VEE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,ER,ES,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from screeve according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of screeve

screeve

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɹiːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv

Etymology 1

In view of the slang nature of the term, probably from Polari screeve (“write”), from Irish scríobh, eventually from Latin scrībō (“write”). Doublet of shrive.

Verb

screeve (third-person singular simple present screeves, present participle screeving, simple past and past participle screeved)

  1. (obsolete, UK, slang) To write.
  2. (obsolete, UK, slang) To draw with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
  3. (obsolete, UK, slang) To write begging letters.

Noun

screeve (plural screeves)

  1. (obsolete, UK, slang) A begging letter.

References

  • “Screeve” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 280.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Georgian მწკრივი (mc̣ḳrivi, “row, series”).

Noun

screeve (countable and uncountable, plural screeves)

  1. (grammar) In Georgian grammar, a combination of tense, aspect and mood.

Source: wiktionary.org