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Is sluice a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sluice is a Scrabble US word. The word sluice is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is sluice a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sluice is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Yes. The word sluice is a Words With Friends word. The word sluice is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

SLUICE,ULICES,

5-letter words (9 found)

CEILS,CIELS,CLIES,CLUES,ILEUS,LIEUS,LUCES,SLICE,SULCI,

4-letter words (20 found)

CEIL,CELS,CIEL,CLUE,CUES,ECUS,ICES,ISLE,LEIS,LICE,LIES,LIEU,LUCE,LUES,SCUL,SEIL,SICE,SILE,SLUE,ULES,

3-letter words (19 found)

CEL,CIS,CUE,ECU,ELS,ICE,LEI,LES,LEU,LIE,LIS,SEC,SEI,SEL,SIC,SUE,SUI,ULE,USE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EL,ES,IS,LI,SI,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 57 words from sluice according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sluice

sluice

Etymology

From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“I shut out, I exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sluːs/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /sljuːs/
  • Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

sluice (plural sluices)

  1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
  2. A water gate or floodgate.
  3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  5. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  6. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

Coordinate terms

  • dam
  • lock
  • weir

Derived terms

  • Seaton Sluice
  • sluice gate
  • sluiceway

Translations

Verb

sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)

  1. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  3. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
  4. (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
  5. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
  6. (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

Coordinate terms

  • (washing in mining): pan

Derived terms

  • sluice one's bolt
  • sluice out

Translations

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sluice.

References

  • “sluice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • lucies

Source: wiktionary.org