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Is hackney a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hackney is a Scrabble US word. The word hackney is worth 19 points in Scrabble:

H4A1C3K5N1E1Y4

Is hackney a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hackney is a Scrabble UK word and has 19 points:

H4A1C3K5N1E1Y4

Is hackney a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word hackney is a Words With Friends word. The word hackney is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3A1C4K5N2E1Y3

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7-letter words (1 found)

HACKNEY,

5-letter words (11 found)

CAKEY,CANEH,CHANK,CHEKA,HACEK,HANCE,HANKY,HYENA,KANEH,KENCH,NACHE,

4-letter words (30 found)

ACHE,ACHY,ACNE,ANCE,ANKH,CAKE,CAKY,CANE,CANY,CHAY,CYAN,EACH,HACK,HAEN,HAKE,HANK,HECK,HYEN,HYKE,KANE,KHAN,KYNE,NACH,NECK,NYAH,YACK,YANK,YEAH,YEAN,YECH,

3-letter words (35 found)

ACE,ACH,AKE,ANE,ANY,AYE,CAN,CAY,CHA,CHE,EAN,ECH,HAE,HAN,HAY,HEN,HEY,HYE,KAE,KAY,KEA,KEN,KEY,KYE,NAE,NAH,NAY,NEK,NYE,YAE,YAH,YAK,YEA,YEH,YEN,

2-letter words (17 found)

AE,AH,AN,AY,CH,EA,EH,EN,HA,HE,KA,KY,NA,NE,NY,YA,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 95 words from hackney according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hackney

hackney

Etymology

From Middle English hakeney, from the placename Hackney (formerly a town; now a borough of London), used for grazing horses before sale, from Old English Hacan īeġ (“Haca's Island”, literally “Hook's Island”). The Old French haquenée (“ambling mare for ladies”), Latinized in England to hakeneius, is originally from the English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhækni/
  • Rhymes: -ækni

Noun

hackney (countable and uncountable, plural hackneys)

  1. (archaic) An ordinary horse.
  2. A carriage for hire or a cab.
  3. A horse used to ride or drive.
  4. A breed of English horse.
  5. (archaic) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
  6. (archaic, uncountable) Inferior writing; literary hackwork.
    • quoted in 1972, Pat Rogers, Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture (page 384)
      Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience
      How unhappy's the fate
      To live by one's pate
      And to be forced to write hackney for bread.

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Adjective

hackney (not comparable)

  1. Offered for hire.
    hackney coaches
  2. (figuratively) Much used; trite; mean.
    hackney authors

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Verb

hackney (third-person singular simple present hackneys, present participle hackneying, simple past and past participle hackneyed)

  1. (transitive) To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
  2. (transitive) To use as a hackney.
  3. (transitive) To carry in a hackney coach.

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Source: wiktionary.org