Is play a Scrabble word?
Yes, play is a Scrabble word!
...and is worth 9 points in Scrabble, and 10 points in Words with Friends
Play is a valid Scrabble word.
Play is a word starting with p ending with y. Check our list of words starting with p ending with y.
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Dictionary definitions of the word play
The meaning of play
play
52 definitions of the word play.
Verb
- Participate in games or sport
- Act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- Play on an instrument
- Play a role or part
- Be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- Replay (as a melody)
- Perform music on (a musical instrument)
- Pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- Move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- Bet or wager (money)
- Engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- Pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- Emit recorded sound
- Perform on a certain location
- Put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- Engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- Behave in a certain way
- Cause to emit recorded audio or video
- Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- Use to one's advantage
- Consider not very seriously
- Be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- Behave carelessly or indifferently
- Cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- Perform on a stage or theater
- Be performed or presented for public viewing
- Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- Discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- Make bets
- Stake on the outcome of an issue
- Shoot or hit in a particular manner
- Use or move
- Employ in a game or in a specific position
- Contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- Exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
Noun
- A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- A theatrical performance of a drama
- A preset plan of action in team sports
- A deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- A state in which action is feasible
- Utilization or exercise
- An attempt to get something
- Activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- The removal of constraints
- A weak and tremulous light
- Verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- Movement or space for movement
- Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- The act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- The act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in play?
4 Letter Words
- paly9
1 Anagram of Play
Anagrams are words that use the same letters as other words, but in a different order.
Anagrams are sometimes called a Word Unscramble
Words that can be created with an extra letter added to play:
Unscramble the letters in play
There are 8 words that can be made by adding another letter to 'play'.