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Is long a Scrabble word?

Yes, long is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of long?

Definition

adj (English)

1. Having much distance in space from one end to the other.Examples: "My ex was very strong but not very long."informal

2. Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.Examples: "The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway."; "Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship’s magazine."usually

3. Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.Examples: "That forehand was long. It landed two feet beyond the baseline."; "The pass was long and was gathered by the opposing goalkeeper."

4. (UK, Ireland, dated) Not short; tall.Examples: "The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it."; "Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall."IrelandUKdated

5. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.Examples: "I’m long in DuPont."; "I have a long position in DuPont."Antonyms: short

6. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).

noun (English)

1. (linguistics) A long vowel.Examples: "In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts."

2. (prosody) A long syllable.

3. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

4. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.Examples: "A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment."

5. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.Examples: "Every uptick made the longs cheer."Synonyms: bull

6. (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.Examples: "Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues."; ""U.S. Treasury Market Structure", https://www.mfaalts.org/issue/u-s-treasury-market-structure/ Hedge funds are constrained in how much leverage they can utilize, in part because the futures contracts they are shorting against their Treasury longs have significant initial margin requirements."

verb (English)

1. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.Examples: "The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put."transitive

adv (English)

1. (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.Examples: "Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight."Synonyms: a long way, farAntonyms: a short distance

2. (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.Examples: "She hit her return long and lost the point."Synonyms: a long way, farAntonyms: a short distance

3. (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.Examples: "Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world."; "By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone."; "I seldom stay long after class, but yesterday I spent the evening and long into the night."adjectiveadverbparticiple

4. (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.Examples: "It’s an earth song,— And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song. It’s a spring song,— And I’ve been waiting long for a spring song.[…] I have been waiting long for this spring song."rare

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).Examples: "She longed for him to come back."; "The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad."Synonyms: ache, yearnintransitive

adj (English)

1. (archaic) On account of, because of.Examples: "I am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them."Synonyms: lengthyarchaicnot-comparable

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "long"?

Scrabble
5 points
L1
O1
N1
G2
Words With Friends
8 points
L2
O1
N2
G3

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