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

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

H4E1R1E1S1Y4

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6-letter words (2 found)

HERESY,HERYES,

5-letter words (9 found)

EYERS,EYRES,HERES,HERSE,HERYE,SHEER,SHERE,SHYER,YEESH,

4-letter words (16 found)

EERY,ERES,EYER,EYES,EYRE,HERE,HERS,HERY,HEYS,HYES,REES,REHS,RESH,RYES,SEER,SERE,

3-letter words (22 found)

EHS,ERE,ERS,EYE,HER,HES,HEY,HYE,REE,REH,RES,RHY,RYE,SEE,SER,SEY,SHE,SHY,SYE,YEH,YER,YES,

2-letter words (8 found)

EE,EH,ER,ES,HE,RE,SH,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 58 words from heresy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of heresy

heresy

Alternative forms

  • hæresy

Etymology

From Middle English heresie, from Old French heresie (modern hérésie), from Latin haeresis, from Ancient Greek αἵρεσις (haíresis, “choice, system of principles”), from αἱρέομαι (hairéomai, “to take for oneself, to choose”), the middle voice of αἱρέω (hairéō, “to take”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ser-; see also Welsh herw (“theft, raid”), Ancient Greek στερέω (steréō, “to deprive of”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɛɹəsi/
  • Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪsi

Noun

heresy (countable and uncountable, plural heresies)

  1. (religion) a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance or conflict with established religious beliefs
    • 1968, History of Western Civilization, edited by Heyes, Baldwin & Cole, p.47. Macmillan. Library of Congress 67–13596
      Heresy meant deliberate departure from the accepted doctrines of the church. It was intellectual and spiritual dissent and concerned the beliefs of Christianity, not the morals of its adherents.
    Synonym: misbelief
    Antonym: orthodoxy
  2. (by extension) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.

Hyponyms

  • arch-heresy
  • Arian heresy
  • formal heresy
  • material heresy

Related terms

  • heresiarch
  • heretic
  • heretical

Translations

See also

  • bid'a
  • schism
  • Arianism
  • monophysism
  • Nestorianism
  • Pelagianism

References

Anagrams

  • Hersey, Heyers, heyres

Source: wiktionary.org