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Is right a Scrabble word?

Yes, right is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of right?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (geometry) Of an angle, measuring 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.Examples: "The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall."

2. (geometry) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.Examples: "a right triangle   a right prism   a right cone"

3. (geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.Examples: "The Louvre Museum is on the right bank of the Seine."Antonyms: left

4. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.Synonyms: right-wing, conservativeAntonyms: left, left-wing, liberal

5. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.Examples: "Kirsty: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat? Ken: No. I'm right, thanks."; "When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right, sir? This means Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help."; "'You lost?' Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right, thanks,' said Colin.'"Synonyms: all right, OKAustralia

6. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.Examples: "The lady has been disappointed on the right side."dated

adv (English)

1. (British, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.Examples: "I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?"; "I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much."; "a right godly treatise"Synonyms: ever soBritishUSdialectalnot-comparable

2. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.Examples: "Sir, I am right glad to meet you …"; "Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life."; "The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci."datednot-comparable

noun (English)

1. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.Examples: "The political right holds too much power."; "Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support."

2. (surfing) A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).Antonyms: left

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To correct.Examples: "Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible."transitive

2. (transitive) To set upright.Examples: "The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile."transitive

3. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.Examples: "When the wind died down, the ship righted."intransitive

4. (transitive) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.Examples: "to right the oppressed"; "So just is God, to right the innocent."; "All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."transitive

name (English)

1. (politics) The political right wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual right-wing political party.Examples: "Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly."Synonyms: right wing, rightists

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "right"?

Scrabble
9 points
R1
I1
G2
H4
T1
Words With Friends
9 points
R1
I1
G3
H3
T1

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