Dictionary Entry
penny
penny is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds. Face value is 10 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 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
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- 1adjective
Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
- 2noun
An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
- 3noun
Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
- 4noun
Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
- 5noun
See Denarius.
- 6adjective
Worth or costing one penny.
- 7noun
a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- 8noun
a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
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