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Is deny a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word deny is a Scrabble US word. The word deny is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

D2E1N1Y4

Is deny a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word deny is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

D2E1N1Y4

Is deny a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word deny is a Words With Friends word. The word deny is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2E1N2Y3

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4-letter words (3 found)

DENY,DYNE,NYED,

3-letter words (7 found)

DEN,DEY,DYE,END,NED,NYE,YEN,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,ED,EN,NE,NY,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from deny according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of deny

deny edny dney ndey endy nedy deyn edyn dyen yden eydn yedn dnye ndye dyne ydne nyde ynde enyd neyd eynd yend nyed yned

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word deny. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in deny.

Definitions and meaning of deny

deny

Etymology

From Middle English denyen, from Old French denoier (“to deny, to repudiate”) (French dénier), from Latin denegare (“to deny, to refuse”), from de- (“away”) and negare (“to refuse”), the latter ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Doublet of denegate.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈnaɪ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dəˈnaɪ/, /dɪ-/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Hyphenation: de‧ny

Verb

deny (third-person singular simple present denies, present participle denying, simple past and past participle denied)

  1. (transitive) To disallow or reject.
    Antonym: grant
  2. (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
  3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
    Antonym: grant
  4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
  5. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
  6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
  7. (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

Usage notes

  • This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
  • Deny can have a connotation that the denial is false; he denied knowing the accused has a more suspicious tone than he said he did not know the accused. However, in some formal usages, e.g. medical records, it can have a more neutral sense (patient denies chest pain).
  • Although common, it is incorrect to use this word with the preposition of. Instead of denied of, the preferred expressions are deprive of or simply deny. [4]

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (assert something is not true): gainsay, contradict, withsay, refute, disclaim

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "disallow"): allow
  • (antonym(s) of "assert something is true"): confirm, affirm

Derived terms

  • deniability
  • denier
  • deny of
  • deny oneself
  • justice delayed is justice denied
  • self-denying

Related terms

  • denial

Translations

Anagrams

  • E.D.N.Y., EDNY, Ynde, dyne

Middle English

Verb

deny

  1. Alternative form of denyen

Source: wiktionary.org