Glee in Scrabble and Meaning

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Is glee a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word glee is a Scrabble US word. The word glee is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is glee a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word glee is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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Is glee a Words With Friends word?

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4-letter words (1 found)

GLEE,

3-letter words (5 found)

EEL,GEE,GEL,LEE,LEG,

2-letter words (2 found)

EE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from glee according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of glee

glee

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: glē, IPA(key): /ɡliː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (joy, mirth), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (to joke, make fun, enjoy).

Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music), Icelandic glý (joy, glee, gladness), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, joke, jest, scorn). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.

Noun

glee (countable and uncountable, plural glees)

  1. (uncountable) Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
    Synonyms: merriment, mirth, gaiety, gloat; see also Thesaurus:happiness
  2. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
  3. (singing, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English gleen, glewen, from Old English glēowian (to sing, play an instrument, jest), from Proto-West Germanic *glīwōn, from Proto-Germanic *glīwōną. Cognate with Icelandic glýja (to be gleeful).

Verb

glee (third-person singular simple present glees, present participle gleeing, simple past and past participle gleed)

  1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Anagrams

  • Egle, Lege, lege

Limburgish

Noun

glee f

  1. something that is wet because it has been pasted together

See also

  • èpperglieëdjómme

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German klein, kleine, from Old High German kleini, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (shining, fine, splendid, tender), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (to cleave, stick). Compare German klein, Dutch klein.

Adjective

glee

  1. small

Source: wiktionary.org