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Is carry a Scrabble word?

Yes, carry is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle Yes
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of carry?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.Examples: ""By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler.""; "Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed."; "Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."transitive

2. (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.Examples: "to carry the war from Greece into Asia"; "to carry an account to the ledger"transitive

3. (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.Examples: "The builders are going to carry the chimney through the roof."; "They would have carried the road ten miles further, but ran out of materials."transitive

4. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using forceSynonyms: impel, conductarchaictransitive

5. (transitive) To lead or guide.Examples: "Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet."; "And he carried away all his cattle […] for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan."; "Passion and revenge will carry them too far."transitive

6. (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.Examples: "The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin."Synonyms: have, keep, stock, supplytransitive

noun (English)

1. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.Examples: "On paper, simply add the carry to the next addition; that is, $B2 + $9C + 1. That’s fine for paper, but how is it done by computer?"

2. (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.Examples: "The carry on this trade is 25 basis points per annum."

3. (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.

4. (finance) Carried interest.

5. (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.UKdialectal

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "carry"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "carry"?

Scrabble
10 points
C3
A1
R1
R1
Y4
Words With Friends
10 points
C4
A1
R1
R1
Y4

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