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Is rye a Scrabble word?

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

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Is rye a Scrabble UK word?

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

R1Y4E1

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Yes. The word rye is a Words With Friends word. The word rye is worth 5 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (2 found)

RYE,YER,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from rye according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of rye

rye

English

Etymology

From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrugʰís.

Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophone: wry

Noun

rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)

  2. A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
  3. The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
  4. Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
  5. (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
  6. (US, Canada) A drink of rye.
  7. Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
  8. Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
  9. A disease of hawks.

Coordinate terms

  • (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • -ery, -yer, Rey, Yer, e'ry, eyr, yer, yre

Japanese

Romanization

rye

  1. The katakana syllable リェ (rye) in Hepburn-like romanization.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • rie, reye, reyghe, reyhe, ruye

Etymology

From Old English ryge, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈriː(ə)/

Noun

rye (plural ryes)

  1. rye (Secale cereale)

Descendants

  • English: rye
  • Scots: ry
  • Yola: ree

References

  • “rīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rye f (definite singular rya, indefinite plural ryer, definite plural ryene)

  1. rya

Related terms

  • ru

References

  • “rye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • yre

Source: wiktionary.org