Sieve
/sɪv/
Scrabble:8 ptsWWF:9 pts5 letters
Definition of Sieve
noun
- A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
"Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water."
- A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
"Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers."
- A kind of coarse basket.
- A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
Anagrams of Sieve
Letter Values
s1
i1
e1
v4
e1
Total: 8 Scrabble points
Rhymes With Sieve
Word Validity & Sources
SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Sieve"
Sieve is a 5-letter word that scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words With Friends.
Using "Sieve" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "sieve" is a low-scoring word.