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Is wye a Scrabble word?

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

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

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Yes. The word wye is a Words With Friends word. The word wye is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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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 wye according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of wye

wye ywe wey ewy yew eyw

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Definitions and meaning of wye

wye

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophones: y, Y, why (wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

Attested as wi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from Old French ui or gui.

Alternative forms

  • why, wy

Noun

wye (plural wyes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y.
    • 1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190
      Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.
  2. A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
Derived terms
  • wye cable
  • wye level
  • wye switch
Translations
See also
  • (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Verb

wye (third-person singular simple present wyes, present participle wyeing or wying, simple past and past participle wyed)

  1. (transitive) To make something into a wye (letter Y) shape.
  2. (transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.

Etymology 2

Old English wiga.

Noun

wye (plural wyes)

  1. (poetic, obsolete) A warrior or fighter.
  2. (poetic, obsolete) A hero; a man, person.

See also

  • wye aye

Anagrams

  • Wey, wey, yew

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Alternative forms

  • we (Baiap)
  • wie (Sesivi)

Noun

wye

  1. (West Ambryn) water

References

  • Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Alternative forms

  • waie

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wiː/
  • Homophone: wee

Noun

wye (plural wyse or wys)

  1. way

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 79

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