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Is sue a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sue is a Scrabble US word. The word sue is worth 3 points in Scrabble:

S1U1E1

Is sue a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sue is a Scrabble UK word and has 3 points:

S1U1E1

Is sue a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word sue is a Words With Friends word. The word sue is worth 4 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

S1U2E1

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Valid words made from Sue

You can make 5 words from 'sue' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'sue'

SUE 3USE 3

2 letters words from 'sue'

ES 2US 2

All 3 letters words made out of sue

sue use seu esu ues eus

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sue. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sue.

Definitions and meaning of sue

sue

Etymology

From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) ( > French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophones: Sioux, sou, Su, Sue, sew (etymology 2)

Verb

sue (third-person singular simple present sues, present participle suing, simple past and past participle sued)

  1. (transitive) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  3. (transitive, falconry, of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.).
  4. (transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To court.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To follow.
    • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, III. iv:
      though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.

Quotations

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

Derived terms

  • sue for peace

Related terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • ESU, EUS, SEU, UEs, ues, use

Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suːɛ/, /suːeɪ/

Adjective

sue

  1. small

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sy/
  • Homophones: su, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
  • Rhymes: -y

Verb

sue

  1. inflection of suer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. feminine singular past participle of savoir

Anagrams

  • eus, use, usé

Italian

Etymology

From Latin suae.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: su‧e

Adjective

sue

  1. his, her, its; plural of sua

Anagrams

  • use

Japanese

Romanization

sue

  1. Rōmaji transcription of すえ

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈs̠uɛ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.e/, [ˈsuːɛ]

Verb

sue

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of suō

Noun

sue

  1. ablative singular of sūs

Middle English

Noun

sue

  1. Alternative form of sowe

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: su‧e

Verb

sue

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of suar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of suar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of suar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of suar

Tarantino

Pronoun

sue m (possessive, feminine soje)

  1. his

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  • SUDS, to wash in soapy water.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)