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What does hygiene mean? Is hygiene a Scrabble word?

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Is hygiene a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hygiene is a Scrabble US word. The word hygiene is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

H4Y4G2I1E1N1E1

Is hygiene a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hygiene is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

H4Y4G2I1E1N1E1

Is hygiene a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word hygiene is a Words With Friends word. The word hygiene is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3Y3G3I1E1N2E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

HYGIENE,

6-letter words (3 found)

EYEING,HEYING,HYEING,

5-letter words (9 found)

EHING,EIGNE,EYING,GENIE,GYNIE,HENGE,HINGE,HYING,NEIGH,

4-letter words (9 found)

EINE,EYEN,EYNE,GENE,GHEE,GIEN,HING,HYEN,NIGH,

3-letter words (23 found)

EEN,ENE,ENG,EYE,GEE,GEN,GEY,GHI,GIE,GIN,HEN,HEY,HIE,HIN,HYE,ING,NEE,NEG,NIE,NYE,YEH,YEN,YIN,

2-letter words (10 found)

EE,EH,EN,GI,HE,HI,IN,NE,NY,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from hygiene according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of hygiene

hygiene

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hī'jēn, hījēn', IPA(key): /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒiːn/, /haɪˈd͡ʒiːn/

Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

  1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
  2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
  3. Cleanliness.
  4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “hygiene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “hygiene”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

  1. hygiene

Derived terms

  • munnhygiene

Related terms

  • hygienisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

  1. hygiene

Derived terms

  • munnhygiene

Related terms

  • hygienisk

Source: wiktionary.org