buddy: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 12 letter points · starts with B · ends with Y
Meaning of buddy
noun
A friend or casual acquaintance.
Example: They have been buddies since they were in school.
A partner for a particular activity.
Example: drinking buddies
A partner for a particular activity. A workmate assigned to work closely with another.
Example: training buddies [mentor/mentee]
An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.
Example: Hey, buddy, I think you dropped this.
Listed forms: buddies.
Source: Wiktionary — buddy.
pron
A person far removed from the conversation.
Example: I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.
Source: Wiktionary — buddy.
verb
- transitive
To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
Listed forms: buddies, buddying, buddied.
Source: Wiktionary — buddy.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for buddy.
noun
a close friend who accompanies their buddies in their activities
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is buddy in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of buddy
B(3) + U(1) + D(2) + D(2) + Y(4) = 12 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of buddy
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from buddy
5 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in buddy. Showing up to 24, longest first.