clerk

clerk is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A clergyman or ecclesiastic. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
2. noun. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
3. noun. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
4. noun. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
5. noun. An assistant in a shop or store.
6. noun. an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
7. noun. a salesperson in a store

   Synonyms: salesclerk

8. verb. work as a clerk, as in the legal business

Synonyms

salesclerk

Common word forms

clerks, clerked, clerkly, clerking, clerkless

Words from these letters

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