Definitions for clept

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Spelling: [klept]
IPA: /klɛpt/

Clept is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in clept (celpt).

Definitions for clept

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of clepe.

verb (used with object)

  1. to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).

Origin of clept

before 900; Middle English clepen, Old English cleopian, variant of clipian; akin to Middle Low German kleperen to rattle

Examples for clept

And it was wont to be clept Collos; and so call it the Turks yet.

And there an angel held Jacob still, and turned his name, and clept him Israel.

And beyond these isles there is another isle that is clept Pytan.

In Ethiopia be many diverse folk; and Ethiope is clept Cusis.

From that city of Erzeroum go men to an hill that is clept Sabissocolle.

And they went to dwell in the land of Canaan in a place that is clept Shechem.

And beside the city of Akon runneth a little river, that is clept Belon.

And above the city is a great mountain that also is clept Polombe.

There be other, that be clept Syrians; and they hold the belief amongst us, and of them of Greece.

And through that land runneth a great river that is clept Thebe.

Word Value for clept
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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