CLERIHEW

What CLERIHEW Means

1. noun: a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person“‘The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right’ is a clerihew”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CLERIHEW is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 L1 E1 R1 I1 H4 E1 W4.

Words Made From The Letters In CLERIHEW

117 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.

7 letter words (3)

6 letter words (10)

5 letter words (19)

4 letter words (50)

3 letter words (25)

2 letter words (10)

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