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Is levy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word levy is a Scrabble US word. The word levy is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

L1E1V4Y4

Is levy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word levy is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

L1E1V4Y4

Is levy a Words With Friends word?

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

L2E1V5Y3

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4-letter words (1 found)

LEVY,

3-letter words (4 found)

LEV,LEY,LYE,VLY,

2-letter words (2 found)

EL,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from levy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of levy

levy elvy lvey vley evly vely leyv elyv lyev ylev eylv yelv lvye vlye lyve ylve vyle yvle evyl veyl eyvl yevl vyel yvel

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word levy. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in levy.

Definitions and meaning of levy

levy

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.vi/
  • Rhymes: -ɛvi

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

Verb

levy (third-person singular simple present levies, present participle levying, simple past and past participle levied)

  1. (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
  2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
  3. To draft someone into military service.
  4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
  5. To wage war.
  6. To raise, as a siege.
  7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
Translations

Noun

levy (plural levies)

  1. The act of levying.
    • 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece
  2. The tax, property, or people so levied.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Contraction of elevenpence.

Noun

levy (plural levies)

  1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

See also

  • levee
  • Levi

Anagrams

  • Elvy, vley

Finnish

Etymology

lev- +‎ -y; from the same root as leveä (“wide”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleʋy/, [ˈle̞ʋy]
  • Rhymes: -eʋy
  • Syllabification(key): le‧vy

Noun

levy

  1. plate (thin, flat object of uniform thickness)
  2. board (flat construction material supplied in sheets, such as chipboard, or a sheet of such material)
  3. slab (thick, flat piece of material)
  4. (computing, electronics) disk (device for storing data)
  5. (music) recording, disc (piece of music stored on a disc, or a disc on which music is saved)
  6. Ellipsis of keittolevy (“hotplate”).

Declension

Synonyms

  • (plate): laatta
  • (musical recording): levytys (music); savikiekko, vinyyli, äänilevy (physical disc)

Hyponyms

  • (recording): älppäri, pitkäsoittolevy, single

Derived terms

References

  • Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

Further reading

  • “levy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

  • elvy

Source: wiktionary.org