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Yes. The word canary is a Scrabble US word. The word canary is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

CANARY,

5-letter words (1 found)

CARNY,

4-letter words (14 found)

ARNA,CANY,CARN,CRAN,CRAY,CYAN,NARC,NARY,RACA,RACY,RANA,RAYA,YAAR,YARN,

3-letter words (14 found)

ANA,ANY,ARC,ARY,CAA,CAN,CAR,CAY,CRY,NAY,RAN,RAY,RYA,YAR,

2-letter words (7 found)

AA,AN,AR,AY,NA,NY,YA,

You can make 37 words from canary according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of canary

canary

Etymology

From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈnɛəɹi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈnɛəɹi/

Noun

canary (countable and uncountable, plural canaries)

  1. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
  2. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
  3. (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
  4. (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
  5. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
  6. (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
  7. (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
  8. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
  9. (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
  10. (computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
  11. (countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
  12. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
  13. (UK, slang, obsolete) A sovereign (coin).

Synonyms

  • (informant): See Thesaurus:informant

Hyponyms

  • Serinus canaria, Serinus pusillus, Serinus serinus

Derived terms

  • Abyssinian grosbeak canary (Crithagra donaldsoni)
  • Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria)
  • black-faced canary (Crithagra capistratus)
  • black-headed canary (Serinus alario)
  • black-throated canary (Crithagra atrogularis)
  • brimstone canary (Crithagra sulphuratus)
  • bully canary (Crithagra sulphuratus)
  • bush canary (Mohoua ochrocephala)
  • canarybird flower, canarybird vine (Tropaeolum peregrinum)
  • canary bird
  • canary creeper (Tropaeolum peregrinum)
  • canary clover (Dorycnium hirsutum)
  • canary fit
  • canary-flycatcher (in genus Culicicapa)
  • canary flyrobin (Devioeca papuana)
  • canary girl
  • canary in a coal mine, canary in the coal mine
  • canary grass (Phalaris canariensis)
  • canary nasturtium (Tropaeolum peregrinum)
  • canary parakeet
  • canarypox (Canarypox virus)
  • canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger)
  • canary seed
  • canary trap
  • canary-winged finch (Melanodera melanodera)
  • canary-winged parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus)
  • canary wood, canary whitewood
  • canary yellow
  • Cape canary (Serinus canicollis)
  • cat that ate the canary, cat that swallowed the canary
  • climate canary
  • common canary (Serinus canaria)
  • Damara canary (Serinus alario leucolaema)
  • domestic canary (Serinus canaria)
  • forest canary (Crithagra scotops)
  • grosbeak-canary (Crithagra spp.)
  • hairy canary
  • island canary (Serinus canaria)
  • Kenya grosbeak-canary (Crithagra buchanani)
  • lemon-breasted canary (Crithagra citrinipectus)
  • miner's canary
  • Missouri canary
  • northern grosbeak-canary (Crithagra donaldsoni)
  • papyrus canary (Crithagra koliensis)
  • protea canary (Crithagra leucoptera)
  • red factor canary
  • Rocky Mountain canary
  • sea canary (Delphinapterus leucas)
  • sing like a canary
  • southern grosbeak-canary (Crithagra buchanani)
  • stack canary
  • white-bellied canary (Crithagra dorsostriatus)
  • white-throated canary (Crithagra albogularis)
  • yellow-eyed canary, yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica)
  • yellow-crowned canary (Serinus flavivertex)
  • warrant canary

Translations

Adjective

canary (comparative more canary, superlative most canary)

  1. Of a light yellow colour.

Translations

Verb

canary (third-person singular simple present canaries, present participle canarying, simple past and past participle canaried)

  1. (intransitive) To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
  2. (slang) To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
  3. (software engineering) To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.

Synonyms

  • (to inform): See Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

See also

  • serin
  • yellowhead
  • Appendix:Colors

References

  • (sovereign): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Source: wiktionary.org