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Yes. The word noy is a Scrabble US word. The word noy is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word noy is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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3-letter words (3 found)

NOY,ONY,YON,

2-letter words (5 found)

NO,NY,ON,OY,YO,

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

All 3 letters words made out of noy

noy ony nyo yno oyn yon

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Definitions and meaning of noy

noy

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /nɔɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

Verb

noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)

  1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
Alternative forms
  • noie (obsolete)

Etymology 2

From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.

Noun

noy

  1. (obsolete) annoyance

References

  • “noy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Yon, yon

Catalan

Noun

noy m (plural noys)

  1. Obsolete spelling of noi

Further reading

  • “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Fula

Adverb

noy

  1. (Adamawa) how, how many?

References

  • Tourneux, Henry, Daïrou, Yaya (1999) Vocabulaire peul du monde rural : Maroua-Garoua (Cameroun)‎[1] (in French), retrieved 7 May 2023

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nui, reinforced through aphesis of anoy. Compare noyen.

Alternative forms

  • new, ney, noe, noȝe, noiȝe, noye, noyȝe, nue, nwy, nye

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nui̯/, /niu̯/, /niː/

Noun

noy (plural noyes)

  1. difficulty, trouble
  2. hardship, distress
  3. pain, injury
  4. ennui, tedium
  5. (rare) ire, anger
Descendants
  • English: noy (obsolete)
  • Scots: noy (obsolete)
References
  • “noi, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

noy

  1. Alternative form of noyen

Source: wiktionary.org