Meaning
- (adjective) Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
- (adjective) Artful, tricky or cunning.
- (adjective) Streetwise.
- (adjective) Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
- (adjective) Nigh accurate. “a shrewd guess”
- (adjective) Severe, intense, hard. “a shrewd blow, or assault”
- (adjective) Sharp, snithy, piercing. “a shrewd wind”
- (adjective) Bad, evil, threatening.
- (adjective) Portending, boding.
- (adjective) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
- (adjective) Abusive, shrewish.
- (adjective) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
Letter breakdown
- Shrewdest contains 9 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 7 consonant(s).
- It uses 7 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 2.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 16.
Words from these letters
- deserts
- dessert
- strewed
- wrested
- desert
- deters
- esters
- hewers
- resets
- rested
- serest
- sewers
- sheers
- sheets
- sherds
- shreds
- shrewd
- shrews
- steeds
- steers
- stewed
- strews
- sweets
- theses
- threes
- tweeds
- wheres
- wrests
- deers
- deter
- dress
- ester
- ether
- ewers
- heeds
- herds
- hewed
- hewer
- reeds
- reset
- rests
- seeds
- seers
- sewed
- sewer
- sheds
- sheer
- sheet
- sherd
- shred
- shrew
- steed
- steer
- stews
- strew
- sweet
- terse
- thees
- there
Connected words
Other 9-letter words
- aardvarks
- abandoned
- abasement
- abatement
- abattoirs
- abdicated
- abdicates
- abdominal
- abductees
- abducting
- abduction
- abductors
- abhorrent
- abhorring
- abilities
- ablatives
- ablutions
- abnegated
Words starting with SHR
- shrank
- shrapnel
- shred
- shredded
- shredder
- shredders
- shredding
- shreds
- shrew
- shrewd
- shrewder
- shrewdly
- shrewdness
- shrewish
- shrews
- shriek
- shrieked
- shrieking
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Words ending with EST
Reader questions
What does Shrewdest mean?
Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
How many letters are in Shrewdest?
Shrewdest has 9 letters.
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