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Is butchery a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word butchery is a Scrabble US word. The word butchery is worth 18 points in Scrabble:

B3U1T1C3H4E1R1Y4

Is butchery a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word butchery is a Scrabble UK word and has 18 points:

B3U1T1C3H4E1R1Y4

Is butchery a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word butchery is a Words With Friends word. The word butchery is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4U2T1C4H3E1R1Y3

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8-letter words (1 found)

BUTCHERY,

7-letter words (1 found)

BUTCHER,

6-letter words (3 found)

CHERTY,CHERUB,UBERTY,

5-letter words (26 found)

BERTH,BRUTE,BURET,BUTCH,BUYER,CERTY,CHERT,CHUTE,CRUET,CUBER,CURET,CUTER,CUTEY,CYBER,ERUCT,HERBY,REBUT,REBUY,RECUT,RETCH,RUCHE,TECHY,TEUCH,TRUCE,TUBER,TUYER,

4-letter words (47 found)

BETH,BHUT,BREY,BRUT,BUHR,BURY,BUTE,BYRE,BYTE,CERT,CHER,CHUB,CHUR,CHUT,CRUE,CUBE,CURB,CURE,CURT,CUTE,CYTE,ECHT,ECRU,ERHU,ETCH,HERB,HERY,HUER,HURT,HYTE,RUBE,RUBY,RUTH,TECH,TEHR,THEY,THRU,TREY,TRUE,TRYE,TUBE,TYER,TYRE,YBET,YECH,YUCH,YURT,

3-letter words (48 found)

BET,BEY,BRU,BUR,BUT,BUY,BYE,CHE,CRU,CRY,CUB,CUE,CUR,CUT,ECH,ECU,ETH,HER,HET,HEY,HUB,HUE,HUT,HYE,REB,REC,REH,RET,RHY,RUB,RUC,RUE,RUT,RYE,RYU,TEC,THE,THY,TRY,TUB,TYE,UEY,URB,URE,UTE,YEH,YER,YET,

2-letter words (14 found)

BE,BY,CH,EH,ER,ET,HE,RE,TE,UH,UR,UT,YE,YU,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 141 words from butchery according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of butchery

butchery

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Etymology 1

From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.

Noun

butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)

  1. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
  2. (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
    • 1899 On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery. — Stephen Crane, Making an Orator.
    • 1901 There was good grass on the selection all the year. I’d picked up a small lot—about twenty head—of half-starved steers for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully, and my brother-in-law (Mary’s sister’s husband), who was running a butchery at Gulgong, gave me a good price for them. — Henry Lawson, A Double Buggy at Lahey Creek.
  3. The butchering of meat.
  4. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
    This week’s impossible-to-pronounce word: Catania. Granted, it’s a little trickier than Palermo, but there was no excusing the verbal butchery that ensued. —blog.
  5. A meat market
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Etymology 2

butch +‎ -ery

Noun

butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)

  1. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.

Source: wiktionary.org