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Is stymie a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word stymie is a Scrabble US word. The word stymie is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is stymie a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word stymie is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Is stymie a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word stymie is a Words With Friends word. The word stymie is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

STYMIE,

5-letter words (13 found)

EMITS,ITEMS,METIS,MISTY,MITES,SEITY,SMITE,STIME,STIMY,STYME,TIMES,YETIS,YITES,

4-letter words (23 found)

EMIT,EMYS,ITEM,METS,MISE,MIST,MITE,MITY,SEMI,SITE,SMIT,STEM,STEY,STIE,STIM,STYE,TEMS,TIES,TIME,TYES,YEST,YETI,YITE,

3-letter words (20 found)

EMS,EST,ISM,ITS,MES,MET,MIS,SEI,SET,SEY,SIM,SIT,STY,SYE,TES,TIE,TIS,TYE,YES,YET,

2-letter words (13 found)

EM,ES,ET,IS,IT,ME,MI,MY,SI,ST,TE,TI,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 71 words from stymie according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stymie

stymie

Alternative forms

  • stimie, stimy, stymy

Etymology

From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstaɪmi/
  • Rhymes: -aɪmi

Noun

stymie (plural stymies)

  1. (golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
  2. (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.

Verb

stymie (third-person singular simple present stymies, present participle stymieing or stymying, simple past and past participle stymied)

  1. To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
    Synonyms: block, thwart
  2. (golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.

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Further reading

  • stymie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Source: wiktionary.org