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Is heigh a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word heigh is a Scrabble US word. The word heigh is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

H4E1I1G2H4

Is heigh a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word heigh is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

H4E1I1G2H4

Is heigh a Words With Friends word?

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

H3E1I1G3H3

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5-letter words (1 found)

HEIGH,

4-letter words (1 found)

HIGH,

3-letter words (4 found)

GHI,GIE,HEH,HIE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EH,GI,HE,HI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 11 words from heigh according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of heigh

heigh

English

Alternative forms

  • hey, hi
  • hegh, hech (Scotland)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English heigh, hey, hay, hei, heh, probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Interjection

heigh

  1. An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.

Derived terms

  • heigh-day
  • heigh-ho

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēah, hēh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (early) /heːx/ [heːç], /hejx/ [heiç], (later) /hiːx/ [hiːç]

Adjective

heigh (plural and weak singular heye, comparative heigher or herre, superlative heighest or hext)

  1. high
Alternative forms
  • heighe, heiȝ, heiȝe, heiȝh, heih, hei, heie, heij, hegh, heghe, heg, hege, heȝ, heȝe, heȝhe, heh, hehe, hehȝe, egh, eȝe, he, high, highe, hiȝ, hiȝe, hih, hihe, hiegh, hieȝ, hieȝe, iȝe, hi, hie, hij, heygh, heyghe, heyȝ, heyȝe, heyh, hey, heye, hygh, hyghe, hyȝ, hyȝe, hyh, hyhe, hyeȝ, yȝe, hy, hye
  • heah, heahe, heahȝæ, heaȝe, heaȝæ, hæh, hæhȝe, hæge, hæȝe, hah, hage, haihe, aȝe, haie, haye (Early Middle English)
Derived terms
  • a-high
  • heighte
  • hyghnesse
Descendants
  • English: high, heigh (dialectal)
    • Sranan Tongo: hei
    • → German: high
    • → Polish: haj
  • Scots: heich
  • Yola: heigh, heighe, heegh, hia, hie

References

  • “heigh, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Interjection

heigh

  1. alternative form of hey (“hey”)

Etymology 3

Noun

heigh

  1. alternative form of hey (“hay”)

Etymology 4

Verb

heigh

  1. alternative form of hien (“to go quickly”)

Yola

Alternative forms

  • heighe, heegh, hia, hie

Etymology

From Middle English highe, from Old English hēh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /həi̯/, /hiː/
  • Homophones: hea, hi

Adjective

heigh

  1. high

Derived terms

  • a heighe

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45

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