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Yes. The word scythe is a Scrabble US word. The word scythe is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is scythe a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word scythe is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

CHESTY,SCYTHE,

5-letter words (6 found)

CHEST,CYTES,SYTHE,TECHS,TECHY,YECHS,

4-letter words (23 found)

CYST,CYTE,ECHT,ETCH,ETHS,HEST,HETS,HEYS,HYES,HYTE,SCYE,SECH,SECT,SHET,STEY,STYE,SYCE,TECH,TECS,THEY,TYES,YECH,YEST,

3-letter words (24 found)

CHE,ECH,EHS,EST,ETH,HES,HET,HEY,HYE,SEC,SET,SEY,SHE,SHY,STY,SYE,TEC,TES,THE,THY,TYE,YEH,YES,YET,

2-letter words (9 found)

CH,EH,ES,ET,HE,SH,ST,TE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 65 words from scythe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scythe

scythe

Alternative forms

  • (archaic): sithe, sythe
  • (Exmoor dialect): zive

Etymology

From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.

The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).

The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaɪð/, (some accents) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪθ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪð, -aɪθ

Noun

scythe (plural scythes)

  1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. [before 10th century]
  2. (historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
  3. (cartomancy) The tenth Lenormand card.

Derived terms

  • nature's scythe

Translations

Further reading

  • Scythe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Scythe in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

scythe (third-person singular simple present scythes, present participle scything, simple past and past participle scythed)

  1. (intransitive) To use a scythe. [from 1570s]
  2. (transitive) To cut with a scythe. [from 1570s]
  3. (transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [from 1590s]
  4. (intransitive, figurative, often with through) To attack or injure as if cutting.

Derived terms

  • scythe down
  • scytheman
  • scyther

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Tyches, chesty

French

Etymology

See Scythe (“Scythian”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sit/
  • Homophones: cite, citent, cites, scythes, Scythe, Scythes, site, sites

Adjective

scythe (plural scythes)

  1. Scythian

Further reading

  • “scythe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org