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Is hye a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hye is a Scrabble US word. The word hye is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is hye a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hye is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

H4Y4E1

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3-letter words (3 found)

HEY,HYE,YEH,

2-letter words (3 found)

EH,HE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from hye according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of hye

hye yhe hey ehy yeh eyh

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Definitions and meaning of hye

hye

Translingual

Symbol

hye

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for Armenian.

Adjective

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

  1. Obsolete spelling of high

Verb

hye (third-person singular simple present hyes, present participle hying or hyeing, simple past and past participle hyed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hie

Anagrams

  • Hey, Yeh, hey, yeh

Middle English

Etymology 1

From hyen, hien (“to go quickly”).

Noun

hye (uncountable)

  1. haste, hurry
Alternative forms
  • hy, hygh, hyghe, hyȝ, hyȝe, hey, heye, hegh, heȝe, hij, hiy, high, highe, hiȝ, hiȝe, hih, hihe, hei, heie, heiȝ, heiȝe
Descendants
  • English: hie
  • Scots: hy

References

  • “hī(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hye

  1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hye

  1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hye

  1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hye (plural hyes)

  1. (Southern, South Midland, Early Middle English) Alternative form of hew

Etymology 6

Verb

hye (third-person singular simple present hyeth, present participle hyende, hyynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hyed)

  1. Alternative form of hien

Etymology 7

Verb

hye (third-person singular simple present hyeth, present participle hyende, hyynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hyed)

  1. Alternative form of heien

Etymology 8

Adjective

hye (comparative hyer, superlative hyest)

  1. Alternative form of heigh

Yola

Alternative forms

  • hey

Etymology

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hye

  1. garden, field, enclosure, hay

Derived terms

  • barach-hye
  • chourch-hey

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 46

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