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Yes. The word sheep is a Scrabble US word. The word sheep is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (2 found)

PHESE,SHEEP,

4-letter words (5 found)

HEPS,HESP,PEES,PEHS,SEEP,

3-letter words (8 found)

EHS,HEP,HES,PEE,PEH,PES,SEE,SHE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EH,ES,HE,PE,SH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from sheep according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sheep

sheep

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shēp, IPA(key): /ʃiːp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ʃip/
  • Rhymes: -iːp

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English schep, schepe, from Anglian Old English sċēp (West Saxon sċēap), from Proto-West Germanic *skāp, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą , of unknown origin.

Perhaps from the same Scythian word (compare Ossetian цӕу (cæw, “goat”), Persian چپش (čapiš, “yearling goat”)) which was borrowed into Albanian as cjap, sqap (“buck”) and into Slavic (compare Polish cap). After Kroonen, *skēpą is instead from the root of Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”) via Kluge's law.

See also West Frisian skiep, North Frisian schäip, Dutch schaap, German Schaf), beside Proto-Germanic *keppô (compare Old Norse kjappi (“buck”), dialectal German Kippe (“newborn calf”)).

Alternative forms

  • shoop (slang, chiefly humorous)
  • sheepe (obsolete)

Noun

sheep (countable and uncountable, plural sheep or (nonstandard, humorous or childish) sheeps)

  1. (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
  2. (countable, strictly) A member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.
  3. (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
    Synonyms: lamb, ovine; see also Thesaurus:shy person
  4. (countable, chiefly Christianity, chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).
    • 1990, Dave Mustaine, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due", Megadeth, Rust in Peace.
  5. (uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
  6. (countable, speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:sheep
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Tok Pisin: sipsip (reduplication)
    • → Rotokas: sipisipi
  • → Abenaki: azib (from "a sheep")
  • → Chuukese: siip
  • → Coeur d'Alene: sip
  • → Quiripi: sheeps
Translations

See also

Further reading

  • sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ovis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Sheep (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ovis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Noun

sheep

  1. (chiefly humorous) plural of shoop

References

Anagrams

  • Ephes., HEPES, heeps, shepe

Middle English

Noun

sheep

  1. Alternative form of schep

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Scots scheip, from Middle English schep, from Old English scēap.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃip/

Noun

sheep (plural sheep)

  1. sheep (woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis)

Yola

Noun

sheep

  1. Alternative form of zheep

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88

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