rye

rye is a 3-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 5 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
2. noun. A disease in a hawk.
3. noun. whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
4. noun. hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
5. noun. the seed of the cereal grass

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rye:

eyr, yer

Common word forms

ryes

Words from these letters

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