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Yes. The word wey is a Scrabble US word. The word wey is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word wey is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

W4E1Y4

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3-letter words (3 found)

WEY,WYE,YEW,

2-letter words (3 found)

EW,WE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from wey according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of wey

wey ewy wye ywe eyw yew

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Definitions and meaning of wey

wey

Etymology

From Middle English weie, waie, weihe, wæȝe, from Old English wǣġ (“a weight; a tool for weighing, balance, scale”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales; weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, bring, transport”). Cognate with German Waage (“weight”), Icelandic vág (“a weight”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wā, IPA(key): /weɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ
  • Homophones: way, weigh, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wey (plural weys)

  1. (uncommon, archaic) An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
    • c. 1376, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91:
      Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese.

Anagrams

  • Wye, wye, yew

Akatek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *way-

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bej/

Verb

wey

  1. (intransitive) to sleep

References

Preliminary Classic Maya ‐ English, English ‐ Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings by Erik Boot 
2022. Akateko Living Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. ( to sleep "wey" wav recording )

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.

Alternative forms

  • wei, weie, wai, way

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wæi̯/

Noun

wey (plural weys)

  1. way
Descendants
  • English: way
  • Scots: wey
  • Yola: wye, waie
References
  • “wei, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

wey

  1. Alternative form of whey

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

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Conjunction

wey

  1. that

Pronoun

wey

  1. who

Spanish

Etymology

Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /ɡw/ sounds.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwei/ [ˈwei̯]
  • Rhymes: -ei
  • Syllabification: wey

Noun

wey m (plural weyes)

  1. (Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk
  2. (Mexico, colloquial, Internet, also Latin America) dude, guy, buddy
    Synonyms: carnal, cuate, tonto, bato

Usage notes

  • Due to the popularization of memes using Mexican slang all over Latin America through social networks, the word is heavily used on the internet by non-Mexicans and sometimes employed in spoken language.

Source: wiktionary.org