candy: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 11 letter points · starts with C · ends with Y
Meaning of candy
noun
- uncountable
Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup.
- Canada, Philippines, US, uncountable
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
- Canada, Philippines, US, countable
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
- US, countable, slang, uncountable
crack cocaine.
Listed forms: candies, kandi.
Source: Wiktionary — candy.
verb
- transitive
To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
- intransitive
To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup.
Example: Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
- intransitive
To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.
Listed forms: candies, candying, candied.
Source: Wiktionary — candy.
noun
- obsolete
A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
Listed forms: candies, candee, candie, candil, kandy.
Source: Wiktionary — candy.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
verb
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is candy 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 candy
C(3) + A(1) + N(1) + D(2) + Y(4) = 11 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 candy
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 candy
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