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Is remedy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word remedy is a Scrabble US word. The word remedy is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

R1E1M3E1D2Y4

Is remedy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word remedy is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

R1E1M3E1D2Y4

Is remedy a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word remedy is a Words With Friends word. The word remedy is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

R1E1M4E1D2Y3

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6-letter words (1 found)

REMEDY,

5-letter words (6 found)

EMERY,EMYDE,MERDE,MERED,REDYE,REEDY,

4-letter words (23 found)

DEEM,DEER,DEME,DEMY,DERE,DERM,DREE,DREY,DYER,EERY,EMYD,ERED,EYED,EYER,EYRE,MEED,MEER,MERE,REDE,REED,YEDE,YEED,YERD,

3-letter words (15 found)

DEE,DEY,DRY,DYE,EME,ERE,ERM,EYE,MED,MEE,RED,REE,REM,RYE,YER,

2-letter words (9 found)

DE,ED,EE,EM,ER,ME,MY,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 55 words from remedy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of remedy

remedy

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɛmədi/
  • Hyphenation: rem‧e‧dy

Noun

remedy (plural remedies)

  1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
  2. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
  4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Synonyms

  • (Scottish contexts): remeid

Derived terms

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Verb

remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)

  1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Synonyms

  • redress
  • help
  • correct
  • cure
  • See also Thesaurus:repair

Translations

Related terms

  • remediable
  • remedial

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org