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Is clay a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clay is a Scrabble US word. The word clay is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is clay a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clay is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Yes. The word clay is a Words With Friends word. The word clay is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

ACYL,CLAY,LACY,

3-letter words (5 found)

CAL,CAY,CLY,LAC,LAY,

2-letter words (4 found)

AL,AY,LA,YA,

You can make 12 words from clay according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of clay

clay lcay caly acly lacy alcy clya lcya cyla ycla lyca ylca cayl acyl cyal ycal aycl yacl layc alyc lyac ylac aylc yalc

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Definitions and meaning of clay

clay

Etymology

From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).

Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: klā, IPA(key): /kleɪ/, [kl̥eɪ]
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.
  3. (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
  4. (biblical) The material of the human body.
  5. (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
  7. (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
    We went shooting clays at the weekend.
  8. (informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
    Vilnius is rightfully Polish clay.
  9. A moth, Mythimna ferrago

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "material of the human body"): soul, spirit

Hyponyms

  • kaolin, kaoline

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • alluvium

Verb

clay (third-person singular simple present clays, present participle claying, simple past and past participle clayed)

  1. (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
  2. (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
    • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
      They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.

Derived terms

  • clay up

References

  • Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter volume 11, Number 1.[2] (etymology)
  • “clay” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
  • Clay, New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.

Anagrams

  • Lacy, acyl, lacy

Middle English

Noun

clay

  1. Alternative form of cley (“clay”)

Source: wiktionary.org