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SIEVES

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What SIEVES Means

SIEVES is a form of SIEVE, which means:

  1. verb: examine in order to test suitability“screen these samples”
  2. verb: check and sort carefully“sift the information”
  3. noun: a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SIEVES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 I1 E1 V4 E1 S1.

Anagrams of SIEVES (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SIEVES

25 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

5 letter words (3)

4 letter words (10)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (4)

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