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8 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adverb in a clever manner
originPerhaps a variant of Cleveley, through an irregular development, or a possibly a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Hampshire, from Old English clǣfre (“clover”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) and thus equivalent to clover + -ley (“lea”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- celery 11
- clever 11
- every 11
- veery 11
- cleve 10
- lycee 10
- levy 10
- very 10
- yeve 10
- yeller 9
- vly 9
- elver 8