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Is sherry a Scrabble word?

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

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Is sherry a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is sherry a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word sherry is a Words With Friends word. The word sherry is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

SHERRY,

5-letter words (3 found)

HERRY,SERRY,SHYER,

4-letter words (9 found)

ERRS,HERS,HERY,HEYS,HYES,REHS,RESH,RYES,SERR,

3-letter words (19 found)

EHS,ERR,ERS,HER,HES,HEY,HYE,REH,RES,RHY,RYE,SER,SEY,SHE,SHY,SYE,YEH,YER,YES,

2-letter words (7 found)

EH,ER,ES,HE,RE,SH,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 40 words from sherry according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sherry

sherry

Etymology

Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛɹi/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹi

Noun

sherry (usually uncountable, plural sherries)

  1. (uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
  2. A variety of sherry.
  3. A glass of sherry.

Coordinate terms

  • Madeira, madeira
  • Marsala, marsala
  • Porto, port, porto

Derived terms

  • cooking sherry
  • natural sherry
  • sherried (adj)
  • sherrylike
  • sherry vinegar
  • washing sherry

Descendants

  • → Czech: šery, sherry
  • → German: Sherry
  • → Finnish: sherry
  • → French: sherry
  • → Italian: sherry
  • → Japanese: シェリー (sherī)
  • → Polish: sherry
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin script: šeri
    Cyrillic script: шери
  • → Yiddish: שערי (sheri)

Translations

See also

  • amontillado

Czech

Alternative forms

  • šery

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃɛrɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛrɪ
  • Hyphenation: sher‧ry

Noun

sherry n (indeclinable)

  1. sherry (fortified wine)
  2. sherry (variety of sherry)
  3. sherry (glass of sherry)

Further reading

  • sherry in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • sherry in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • šery in Internetová jazyková příručka

Finnish

Etymology

From English sherry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃeri/, [ˈʃe̞ri]
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃerːy/, [ˈʃe̞rːy]
  • Syllabification(key): sher‧ry

Noun

sherry

  1. sherry

Declension

Further reading

  • “sherry”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Noun

sherry m (plural sherrys)

  1. sherry

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.

Noun

sherry m (invariable)

  1. sherry

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sherry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʂɛ.rɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrɨ
  • Syllabification: she‧rry

Noun

sherry n (indeclinable)

  1. sherry (fortified wine)

Further reading

  • sherry in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org