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Is gley a Scrabble word?

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

G2L1E1Y4

Is gley a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2L1E1Y4

Is gley a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gley is a Words With Friends word. The word gley is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3L2E1Y3

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4-letter words (1 found)

GLEY,

3-letter words (5 found)

GEL,GEY,LEG,LEY,LYE,

2-letter words (2 found)

EL,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of gley

gley lgey gely egly legy elgy glye lgye gyle ygle lyge ylge geyl egyl gyel ygel eygl yegl leyg elyg lyeg yleg eylg yelg

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

Definitions and meaning of gley

gley

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡleɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

1920s, from Ukrainian глей (hlej, “clayey soil”), from Proto-Slavic *glьjь, from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁y-ó-s, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-. Cognate of clay.

Alternative forms

  • glei

Noun

gley (plural gleys)

  1. (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
Synonyms
  • gleysol, gleisol
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)

  1. (soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.

References

  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “глей”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Etymology 2

From Scots.

Verb

gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)

  1. (Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
Related terms
  • agley

Anagrams

  • gyle

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡləi/

Verb

gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleyin, simple past gleyed, past participle gleyed)

  1. to squint

Source: wiktionary.org