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Is tay a Scrabble word?

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

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Is tay a Scrabble UK word?

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

T1A1Y4

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Valid words made from Tay

You can make 5 words from 'tay' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'tay'

TAY 6 

2 letters words from 'tay'

AT 2AY 5
TA 2YA 5

All 3 letters words made out of tay

tay aty tya yta ayt yat

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

Definitions and meaning of tay

tay

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tā, IPA(key): /teɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology

Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea.

Noun

tay (plural tays)

  1. (obsolete or dialect) Tea.

Anagrams

  • AYT, Yat, yat

Kalasha

Determiner

tay

  1. your (singular)

Coordinate terms

  • mími

Kwaza

Noun

tay

  1. woman

References

  • Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Middle French taye, and its source, Latin tēca, thēca, from Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “covering, sheath”)

Noun

tay (plural tays)

  1. The outer membrane of the brain.
    • ryght so he smote hys fadir, Kynge Arthure, with hys swerde holdynge in both hys hondys, uppon the syde of the hede, that the swerde perced the helmet and the tay of the brayne.
References
  • “tei and teie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 September 2020.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tay

  1. Alternative form of þei

Paipai

Adjective

tay

  1. big

Pipil

Alternative forms

  • (Izalco) tey (/ˈteːj/)

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *tla-. Compare Classical Nahuatl tlein (“what”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaːj/

Pronoun

tay

  1. (interroɡative) what
    Tay tikwaj yalua?
    What did you eat yesterday?
  2. (relative) what; that which; the thing that
    Tesu nikmati ne tay inak
    I dont't know what she/he said

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh тай (tay).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑj/

Noun

tay (definite accusative tayı, plural taylar)

  1. colt (horse)

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *siː. Cognate with Thavung ซี.

The relationship between this root and the root represented by Khmer ដៃ (day), Bahnar ti, Juang iti is uncertain. Sora siˀi is likely a post-Proto-Munda development, as other Munda reflexes show /t/.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [taj˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [taj˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ta(ː)j˧˧]
  • Homophone: tai (in some Southern accents)

Noun

tay • (𢬣)

  1. (colloquial) a hand
  2. (colloquial) an arm
  3. (informal) a guy; a dude

Derived terms


Source: wiktionary.org
  • (Latin) a member of the yew genus of evergreen shrubs.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)