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Is whisky a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whisky is a Scrabble US word. The word whisky is worth 19 points in Scrabble:

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Is whisky a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whisky is a Scrabble UK word and has 19 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

WHISKY,

5-letter words (1 found)

WHISK,

4-letter words (5 found)

KHIS,KISH,WHYS,WISH,YWIS,

3-letter words (11 found)

HIS,ISH,KHI,KIS,SHY,SIK,SKI,SKY,SWY,WHY,WIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

HI,IS,KI,KY,SH,SI,

You can make 24 words from whisky according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of whisky

whisky

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɪski/, /ˈʍɪski/
  • Rhymes: -ɪski
  • Hyphenation: whis‧ky

Etymology 1

Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae), from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (“water of life”), calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae. Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, eau de vie, and water of life from the same source.

Noun

whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)

  1. (Scotland, Canada, Australia) Alternative form of whiskey, an alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain, usually aged in oak barrels, (particularly) Scotch; a drink of this liquor. [early 18th century]
    Synonym: (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, dated or archaic) usquebaugh
Usage notes
  • The regional spellings whisky and whiskey (from the Irish form of the same Gaelic word) are used worldwide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but Irish whiskey and bourbon whiskey.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From whisk +‎ -y.

Noun

whisky (plural whiskies)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of whiskey (“a light gig or carriage”).
    • 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 7-8,[1]
      Look into old age, you will see avarice joined to poverty—letchery, gout, impotency, like three monkeys, or London bucks, in a one-horse whisky, driving to the Devil.
Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈwis.ki]

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskys or whiskies)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Czech

Alternative forms

  • viska (colloquial)

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɪskɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ɪskɪ
  • Hyphenation: whi‧s‧ky

Noun

whisky f (indeclinable)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Further reading

  • “whisky”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “whisky”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “whisky”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Noun

whisky c (singular definite whiskyen, plural indefinite whiskyer)

  1. whiskey

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

From English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɪski/
  • Hyphenation: whis‧ky

Noun

whisky m (plural whisky's, diminutive whisky'tje n)

  1. (a glass of) whisky, whiskey

Finnish

Etymology

< English whiskey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋiski/, [ˈʋis̠k̟i]
  • IPA(key): /ˈwiski/, [ˈwis̠k̟i]
  • Rhymes: -iski

Noun

whisky

  1. Alternative form of viski (“whiskey”).
  2. Alternative form of wiski (“Finnish spelling alphabet for "W"”).

Declension

French

Alternative forms

  • ouisqui, ouisquie, ouiski (all rare)
  • whiskey

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wis.ki/

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)

  1. whisky, whiskey
    Synonym: (rare) visqui

Further reading

  • “whisky”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky.

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Greenlandic

Etymology

From English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).

Noun

whisky (plural whiskyt)

  1. whisky

Further reading

  • whisky in Katersat

Hungarian

Etymology

From English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈviski] (phonetic respelling: viszki)
  • Hyphenation: whis‧ky
  • Rhymes: -ki

Noun

whisky (plural whiskyk)

  1. whisky (USA, Ireland: whiskey)

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwis.ki/, /uˈis.ki/
  • Rhymes: -iski
  • Hyphenation: whì‧sky

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, alternative form of usque, shortening of usquebaugh, from Irish uisce beatha (literally “water of life”) and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (literally “water of life”).

Noun

whisky m (invariable)

  1. (countable and uncountable) whisky, whiskey

Further reading

  • whisky1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, derived from whisk.

Noun

whisky m (invariable)

  1. whisky (a kind of light carriage)

Further reading

  • whisky2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

References

Norman

Etymology

From English whisky, ultimately from Old Irish uisce.

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. (Jersey) whisky, whiskey

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

Noun

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyer, definite plural whiskyene)

  1. whisky

References

  • “whisky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

Noun

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyar, definite plural whiskyane)

  1. whisky

References

  • “whisky” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɘs.ki/, /ˈwis.ki/
  • Rhymes: -ɘski, -iski
  • Syllabification: whis‧ky

Noun

whisky f (indeclinable)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Further reading

  • whisky in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • whisky in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: uísque (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: whis‧ky

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskies)

  1. Alternative form of uísque

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • uischi

Etymology

Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwi.ski/, /ˈuj.ski/

Noun

whisky n (plural whisky-uri)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈviski]

Noun

whisky f nondeclinable

  1. whisky, whiskey

Derived terms

  • whiskový

Further reading

  • “whisky”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • güisqui, wiski
  • juisque (New Mexico)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwiski/ [ˈwis.ki]
  • Rhymes: -iski
  • Syllabification: whis‧ky

Noun

whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. whisky (alcoholic liquor)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “whisky”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
  • whisky on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es

Swedish

Etymology

From English whisky.

Noun

whisky c

  1. whisky, whiskey (alcoholic drink)

Declension


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