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Is delay a Scrabble word?

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

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Is delay a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (3 found)

DELAY,LAYED,LEADY,

4-letter words (9 found)

DALE,DEAL,LADE,LADY,LEAD,YALD,YALE,YEAD,YELD,

3-letter words (18 found)

ALE,AYE,DAE,DAL,DAY,DEL,DEY,DYE,ELD,LAD,LAY,LEA,LED,LEY,LYE,YAD,YAE,YEA,

2-letter words (12 found)

AD,AE,AL,AY,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,LA,YA,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from delay according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of delay

delay

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *lattjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Doublet of dally.

Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English lǣfan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈleɪ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dəˈleɪ/, /dɪ-/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Hyphenation: de‧lay

Noun

delay (countable and uncountable, plural delays)

  1. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
  2. (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
  3. (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
  4. (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
Synonyms
  • (period of time): cunctation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Portuguese: delay
Translations

Verb

delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To put off until a later time; to defer.
    2. To retard; to temporarily stop, detain, or hinder.
  2. (intransitive) To wait, hesitate, tarry.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To allay; to temper.
Usage notes
  • This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
  • (put off until a later time): adjourn, defer, forslow (obsolete), penelopize (rare), postpone, put off, put on ice, suspend
  • (retard): belate, forslow (obsolete), get in the way of, hold up, impede; See also Thesaurus:hinder
  • (wait, hesitate): See Thesaurus:procrastinate
  • (allay (obsolete)): calm, moderate, quell; See also Thesaurus:pacify
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English delaien, from Old French delaiier, a variant of delaissier.

Verb

delay (third-person singular simple present delays, present participle delaying, simple past and past participle delayed)

  1. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
  2. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

Further reading

  • “delay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “delay”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Dayle, layed, Adley, Dealy, ladye, Leday, leady, Daley, dealy

Maranao

Noun

delay

  1. Job's tears

References

  • A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English delay.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.ˈlej/

Noun

delay m (plural delays)

  1. (posh, except in technical contexts) delay (period of time before an event being initiated and actually occurring)
    Synonym: atraso
  2. (audio engineering) delay (effect that produces echo-like repetitions in sound)
  3. (audio engineering) delay (unit that produces a delay effect)

Source: wiktionary.org