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Is pulley a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word pulley is a Scrabble US word. The word pulley is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

P3U1L1L1E1Y4

Is pulley a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word pulley is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

P3U1L1L1E1Y4

Is pulley a Words With Friends word?

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

P4U2L2L2E1Y3

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6-letter words (1 found)

PULLEY,

5-letter words (1 found)

PULLY,

4-letter words (8 found)

PELL,PLUE,PULE,PULL,PULY,YELL,YELP,YULE,

3-letter words (15 found)

ELL,LEP,LEU,LEY,LYE,PEL,PLU,PLY,PUL,PUY,PYE,UEY,ULE,YEP,YUP,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,PE,UP,YE,YU,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 31 words from pulley according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of pulley

pulley

Etymology

From Middle English puly, poley, from Old French poulie, polie (“a pulley, windlass”), from Medieval Latin polidia, plural mistaken for the feminine of neuter polidium, from Ancient Greek πολίδιον (polídion, “little pivot”), diminutive of πόλος (pólos, “pivot, hinge, axis”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”). Associated with pull (verb) by folk etymology.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʊli/
  • Rhymes: -ʊli

Noun

pulley (plural pulleys or (obsolete) pullies)

  1. (engineering, countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).

Hypernyms

  • hoist
  • simple machine

Hyponyms

  • polyspast
  • block and tackle
  • winch

Meronyms

  • bearing
  • chain
  • rigging
  • rope
  • wheel

Coordinate terms

  • crane
  • inclined plane
  • lever
  • screw
  • wedge

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Verb

pulley (third-person singular simple present pulleys, present participle pulleying, simple past and past participle pulleyed)

  1. (transitive) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

Source: wiktionary.org