happy: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 15 letter points · starts with H · ends with Y
Meaning of happy
adj
Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
Example: Music makes me feel happy.
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky.
Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
Example: Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
- usually
Bringing or being an instance of favourable fortune; apt, felicitous, fortunate, propitious.
Example: happy coincidence
Listed forms: happier, happiest, happie.
Source: Wiktionary — happy.
noun
- informal, rare
A happy event, thing, person, etc.
Listed forms: happies.
Source: Wiktionary — happy.
verb
- informal, intransitive
Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
- informal, transitive
Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
Listed forms: happies, happying, happied.
Source: Wiktionary — happy.
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 happy.
adjective
marked by good fortune
adjective
eagerly disposed to act or to be of service
adjective
well expressed and to the point
- well-chosen
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is happy in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of happy
H(4) + A(1) + P(3) + P(3) + Y(4) = 15 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 happy
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 happy
13 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in happy. Showing up to 24, longest first.