candy

candy is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
2. transitive verb. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
3. transitive verb. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
4. intransitive verb. To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
5. intransitive verb. To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
6. transitive verb. A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.
7. noun. A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
8. noun. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

   Synonyms: confect

9. verb. coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

   Synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat

Synonyms

confect, glaze, sugarcoat

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in candy:

dancy

Common word forms

candys, candied, candier, candies, candying

Words from these letters

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