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Is shelve a Scrabble word?

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

S1H4E1L1V4E1

Is shelve a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1H4E1L1V4E1

Is shelve a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word shelve is a Words With Friends word. The word shelve is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1H3E1L2V5E1

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6-letter words (2 found)

HELVES,SHELVE,

5-letter words (7 found)

ELVES,HEELS,HELES,HELVE,LEVES,SHEEL,VELES,

4-letter words (13 found)

EELS,ELSE,EVES,HEEL,HELE,LEES,LEVE,LEVS,SEEL,SELE,SLEE,VEES,VELE,

3-letter words (13 found)

EEL,EHS,ELS,EVE,HES,LEE,LES,LEV,SEE,SEL,SEV,SHE,VEE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EE,EH,EL,ES,HE,SH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 42 words from shelve according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of shelve

shelve

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ʃɛlv/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlv

Etymology 1

The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”).

The noun is derived from sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”).

Verb

shelve (third-person singular simple present shelves, present participle shelving, simple past and past participle shelved)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
    2. To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.
      Antonyms: deshelve, unshelve
    3. (figurative) To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.
      1. (slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
      2. (Wales, slang) To have sex with (someone).
        Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with
    4. (figurative) To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
      1. To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.).
        (postpone): Synonyms: mothball, pigeonhole, table
        (entirely cease): Synonyms: halt, quit, stop
      2. (also reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.
Derived terms
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Noun

shelve (plural shelves)

  1. (archaic) A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.
Derived terms
  • shelvy
Translations

Etymology 2

From Late Middle English shelven (“to separate (someone or something) from another thing, keep away”); further etymology uncertain, possibly:

  • from shelf, shelfe (“shelf; cabinet, cupboard; grassy bank”) (though this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary); or
  • related to West Frisian skelf (“not level or straight, oblique”).

Verb

shelve (third-person singular simple present shelves, present participle shelving, simple past and past participle shelved)

  1. (transitive, British, dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
  2. (intransitive)
    1. Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.
    2. (obsolete) To be in an inclined or sloping position.
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • shelver (“worker who tips carts”)
  • shelving (adjective, noun)
Translations

Etymology 3

Treated as a singular form of shelves, the plural of shelf (“reef; sandbar; shoal”).

Noun

shelve (plural shelves)

  1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”)
Derived terms
  • shelvy

References

Anagrams

  • helves

Source: wiktionary.org