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Is very a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word very is a Scrabble US word. The word very is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

V4E1R1Y4

Is very a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word very is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

V4E1R1Y4

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

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4-letter words (1 found)

VERY,

3-letter words (3 found)

REV,RYE,YER,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,RE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from very according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of very

very evry vrey rvey ervy revy veyr evyr vyer yver eyvr yevr vrye rvye vyre yvre ryve yrve eryv reyv eyrv yerv ryev yrev

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

Definitions and meaning of very

very

Etymology

From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.

Distantly cognate with the Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mægen, sore, sin-, swith, wel.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈvɛɹi/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɹi
  • Homophone: vary (in some dialects)

Adjective

very (not generally comparable, comparative verier, superlative veriest)

  1. (literary) True, real, actual.
    • 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, 2nd edition, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 19, p. 517,[1]
      […] they that think to be wiser then other men, are by so much verier fools then others, and so are discerned to be.
  2. The same; identical.
  3. With limiting effect: mere.

Usage notes

  • very is used exclusively attributively and never predicatively.

Synonyms

  • (same, identical): ilk (Scotland, Northern England), selfsame, wicked (Rhode Island)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Solombala English: вери (veri)

Translations

Adverb

very (not comparable)

  1. To a great extent or degree.
    Synonyms: greatly, drastically, extremely
  2. Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
    Synonyms: truly, actually, authentically
  3. (with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.

Usage notes

  • When used in their senses as degree adverbs, "very" and "too" never modify verbs (except in some dialects influenced by Chinese: see citations).

Synonyms

  • (to a great extent): ever so, main (dialectal), mighty, sore (archaic), swith (dialectal), way too, eminently, wicked (Rhode Island)

Derived terms

  • very much
  • how very dare you
  • Very Reverend

Translations

Anagrams

  • ev'ry

Malagasy

Adjective

very

  1. lost
  2. (archaic) enslaved

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French verai.

Alternative forms

  • verai, veray, verra, verray, verre, verrei, verrey, verri, verry
  • werai, werrai, wery

Adjective

very (comparative verier)

  1. true
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:very.

Adverb

very

  1. very

Etymology 2

Verb

very

  1. Alternative form of ferien

Source: wiktionary.org