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Is dye a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dye is a Scrabble US word. The word dye is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

D2Y4E1

Is dye a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dye is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

D2Y4E1

Is dye a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dye is a Words With Friends word. The word dye is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2Y3E1

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Valid words made from Dye

You can make 6 words from 'dye' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


3 letters words from 'dye'

DEY 7DYE 7

2 letters words from 'dye'

DE 3ED 3
YE 5 

All 3 letters words made out of dye

dye yde dey edy yed eyd

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

Definitions and meaning of dye

dye

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: die, [Term?], Di, Dai

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *daugō (“colour, shade”), from *dauganą, *dug- (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”). Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.

The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.

Alternative forms

  • die

Noun

dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)

  1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
  2. Any hue, color, or blee.
Synonyms
  • colourant
  • tincture
Derived terms
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See also
  • ink

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)

  1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
Synonyms
  • (to color): tint, stain, shade, streak
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

  1. Alternative spelling of die (“singular of dice”)
    • 1748. David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 46:
      If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
Translations

Anagrams

  • Dey, dey, ye'd, yed

Afrikaans

Noun

dye

  1. plural of dy

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dieu (“god”).

Noun

dye

  1. god

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to change the colour of.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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