shoe: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with S · ends with E
Meaning of shoe
noun
A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
Example: Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
Example: Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
Example: Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
Listed forms: shoes, shoon, shoen.
Source: Wiktionary — shoe.
verb
- intransitive
To put shoes on one's own feet.
Example: Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.
- transitive
To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
- intransitive
To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
Example: The billiard cue stick was shod in silver.
Listed forms: shoes, shoeing, shod, shoed, shodden.
Source: Wiktionary — shoe.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for shoe.
noun
U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof
noun
a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- brake shoe
- skid
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is shoe in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of shoe
S(1) + H(4) + O(1) + E(1) = 7 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of shoe
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from shoe
13 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in shoe. Showing up to 24, longest first.