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Is envy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word envy is a Scrabble US word. The word envy is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

E1N1V4Y4

Is envy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word envy is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

E1N1V4Y4

Is envy a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word envy is a Words With Friends word. The word envy is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

E1N2V5Y3

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4-letter words (1 found)

ENVY,

3-letter words (2 found)

NYE,YEN,

2-letter words (4 found)

EN,NE,NY,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from envy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of envy

envy nevy evny veny nvey vney enyv neyv eynv yenv nyev ynev evyn veyn eyvn yevn vyen yven nvye vnye nyve ynve vyne yvne

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

Definitions and meaning of envy

envy

Etymology

From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).

Displaced native Old English æfest.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛnvi/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnvi

Noun

envy (countable and uncountable, plural envies)

  1. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions). [from 13th c.]
  2. An object of envious notice or feeling.
  3. (obsolete) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling. [14th–18th c.]
  4. (obsolete) Emulation; rivalry.
    • c. 1631-1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
      Such as cleanliness and decency
      Prompt to a virtuous envy.
  5. (obsolete) Public odium; ill repute.
  6. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

Antonyms

  • kindness

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Verb

envy (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)

  1. (transitive) To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. [from 14th c.]
  2. (transitive) To resentfully or discontentedly desire (something someone else has that one lacks).
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To have envious feelings (at). [15th–18th c.]
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge. [16th–18th c.]
  5. (obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
  6. (obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
  7. (obsolete) To hate.
  8. (obsolete) To emulate.

Translations

Anagrams

  • veny

Middle English

Noun

envy

  1. Alternative form of envie

Source: wiktionary.org