eye: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 6 letter points · starts with E · ends with E
Meaning of eye
noun
An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
Example: Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
The visual sense.
Example: The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
Example: Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
Attention, notice.
Example: That dress caught her eye.
Listed forms: eyes, eyen, ee, eie, ey.
Source: Wiktionary — eye.
verb
- transitive
To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
Example: After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
- transitive
To consider.
Example: Mr. Smith is eyeing a departmental reorganization plan.
- transitive
To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
- transitive
To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
Listed forms: eyes, eyeing, eying, eyed, ee, eie, ey.
Source: Wiktionary — eye.
noun
The name of the Latin script letter I/i.
Listed forms: eyes.
Source: Wiktionary — eye.
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 eye.
noun
the organ of sight
noun
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
verb
look at
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is eye 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 eye
E(1) + Y(4) + E(1) = 6 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 eye
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 eye
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in eye. Showing up to 24, longest first.