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Is yankee a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word yankee is a Scrabble US word. The word yankee is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is yankee a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word yankee is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

YANKEE,

5-letter words (1 found)

AKENE,

4-letter words (9 found)

AKEE,EYEN,EYNE,KANE,KEEN,KNEE,KYNE,YANK,YEAN,

3-letter words (25 found)

AKE,ANE,ANY,AYE,EAN,EEK,EEN,EKE,ENE,EYE,KAE,KAY,KEA,KEN,KEY,KYE,NAE,NAY,NEE,NEK,NYE,YAE,YAK,YEA,YEN,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AN,AY,EA,EE,EN,KA,KY,NA,NE,NY,YA,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 50 words from yankee according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of yankee

yankee

Translingual

Noun

yankee

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Yankee of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

Noun

yankee (plural yankees)

  1. (nautical) A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest.
  2. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
  3. Obsolete form of Yankee.
    • 1887, Edward Bond Foote, The Radical Remedy in Social Science - Borning Better Babies through Regulating Reproduction by Controlling Conception - An Earnest Essay on Pressing Problems, Murray Hill Publishing Company, page 130
      The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds.

Anagrams

  • Keaney

French

Adjective

yankee (plural yankees)

  1. (relational) Yankee
  2. (Louisiana) an Anglo-American, as opposed to someone with French ancestry; resident or native of the rest of the United States

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -anki

Adjective

yankee m or f (masculine and feminine plural yankees)

  1. Alternative spelling of yanqui

Noun

yankee m or f by sense (plural yankees)

  1. Alternative spelling of yanqui

Source: wiktionary.org