Is “Cliques” a Scrabble word?
Yes
CLIQUES
Valid in at least one Scrabble dictionary
Valid in these dictionaries
SOWPODS / CSW
Scrabble UK & International
TWL / NWL
Scrabble North America
Large English Dictionary
General English word list
Meaning of Cliques
noun
1.A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
“This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.”
2.A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
“The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.”
3.A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle