Definitions for schlemiel

schlemiel schle·miel

Spelling: [shluh-meel]
IPA: /ʃləˈmil/

Schlemiel is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in schlemiel (ceehillms).

Definitions for schlemiel

noun

  1. an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.

Origin of schlemiel

1890-95; Yiddish shlemil Hebrew shəlumīʾēl Shelumiel, a Biblical and Talmudic figure

Examples for schlemiel

Based on the leaked reports, he said, “a schlemiel could have done this.”

Do you call an ineffectual, hapless person a schlemiel, a shlemel, a shlemyel, or a schlemeyel?

The song ends up a hit, and the schlemiel has done it again.

Ever since Gifkin leaves us, y'understand, we got in our cutting room one schlemiel after another.

Word Value for schlemiel
Scrable

0

Words with friends

19

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