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Is happy a Scrabble word?

Yes, happy is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 15 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of happy?

Definition

adj (English)

1. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.Examples: "How fares it with the happy dead?"Synonyms: fortunate, lucky, propitious, fortuitous, fortunate, freak, happy, luckyAntonyms: unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitiousarchaic

2. (Of acts, speech, etc.) Appropriate, apt, felicitous.Examples: "happy coincidence"; "The common privilege of your ſex affords you the happy opportunity of alleviating your ſorrows by communicating your ſentiments and feelings to some faithful friend; but to women, even this relief is rigidly denied, and, bound by the harſh reſtraints which the delicacy and reſerve of female natures have impoſed, I muſt bear the ſecret of my ſorrows with painful ſilence."; "You would, even by this most favourable result, be at best only replaced in the situation, and restored to the happy opportunity which you at present possess:[…]"Antonyms: inappropriate, inapt, unfelicitoususually

3. (in combination) Favoring or inclined to use.Examples: "slaphappy, trigger-happy"; "We live in a sue-happy society. If Santa slides off your roof and busts his tailbone, he could sue you, and probably will."; "“Baby, I was a loser / Several years on the dole / An Englishman with a very high voice / Doing rock ’n’ roll,” sings falsetto-happy frontman Justin Hawkins at the start of “Every Inch Of You,” Hot Cakes’ opener."in-compounds

4. (rare, of people, often followed by "at" or "in") Dexterous, ready, skilful.Examples: "For inſtance, one lady can give an anſwer better than aſk a queſtion: one gentleman is happy at a reply; another excels in a rejoinder: one can revive a languiſhing converſation by a ſudden ſurpriſing ſentence; another is more dextrous in ſeconding; a third can fill the gap with laughing, or commending what has been ſaid."oftenrare

noun (English)

1. (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.Examples: "The strike split the Chicano community. Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating. They were known as the "happies" because they wore buttons which featured a smiling face and the slogan, "I'm happy at Farah. …""informalrare

verb (English)

1. (intransitive, informal) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.Examples: "Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up.""; "[H]e smiled […] then asked my name. He checked it against his clipboard then sadly shook his head as if he'd been rejected himself. Told him I was looking for employment and he happied up again, able to help by directing me to apply at the front office, that the doors were on the Gower Street side."Synonyms: blithen, cheer up, chirk, liven up, perk upinformalintransitive

2. (transitive, informal) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.Examples: "People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them."; "[…] [William] Glasser would probably say that happy people are "happying" themselves by choosing behaviors that help them to feel happy (working at their relationships, engaging in productive work activities, participating in desired recreational activities, etc.)."Synonyms: bright, cheer up, happify, perk up, beatify, begladden, blissen, brightinformaltransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "happy"?

Scrabble
15 points
H4
A1
P3
P3
Y4
Words With Friends
15 points
H3
A1
P4
P4
Y4

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