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Is sley a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sley is a Scrabble US word. The word sley is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

S1L1E1Y4

Is sley a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sley is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

S1L1E1Y4

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4-letter words (4 found)

LEYS,LYES,LYSE,SLEY,

3-letter words (9 found)

ELS,LES,LEY,LYE,SEL,SEY,SLY,SYE,YES,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,ES,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from sley according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of sley

sley lsey sely esly lesy elsy slye lsye syle ysle lyse ylse seyl esyl syel ysel eysl yesl leys elys lyes yles eyls yels

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sley. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sley.

Definitions and meaning of sley

sley

Etymology

From Middle English slay, from Old English slege.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sleɪ/

Noun

sley (plural sleys)

  1. Reed (of a loom).
  2. A guideway in a knitting machine.
  3. (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
    Synonym: (sometimes) sett

Verb

sley (third-person singular simple present sleys, present participle sleying, simple past and past participle sleyed)

  1. (transitive, weaving) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed.

Alternative forms

  • slay

Related terms

  • sleave
  • sleid

References

  • “sley”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Sley”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
  • Phyllis G. Tortora, Ingrid Johnson (2013) The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 8th edition, Bloomsbury Academic

Anagrams

  • Slye, leys, lyes, lyse, sely, syle

Middle English

Adjective

sley

  1. Alternative form of sly

Source: wiktionary.org