Dye in Scrabble and Meaning

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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

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3-letter words (2 found)

DEY,DYE,

2-letter words (3 found)

DE,ED,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from dye according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dye

dye

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: die, Di, Dai, dy

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English dēah, dēag (color, hue, dye), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (colour, shade), from *daugan (to conceal, be dark), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (to smoke, raise dust, camouflage).

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete) 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 or color.
Synonyms
  • colourant
  • tincture
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • ink

Etymology 2

Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing or (now nonstandard) dying, 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
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

  1. Archaic spelling of die (a cube used in games of chance).
Translations

Anagrams

  • Dey, dey, ye'd, yed

Achang

Etymology

Forms a transitive/intransitive pair with tyeh (to finish).

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar) /dʲɛ˧/

Verb

dye

  1. to finish, complete

Further reading

  • Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon[1], Payap University, page 29

Afrikaans

Noun

dye

  1. plural of dy

Bassa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dʲe]

Verb

dye

  1. dance

References

  • Bassa-English Dictionary

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dieu (god).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dje/

Noun

dye

  1. god

Source: wiktionary.org