hockey: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 18 letter points · starts with H · ends with Y
Meaning of hockey
noun
- uncountable
Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
- Commonwealth, uncountable
Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
Example: He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.
- Canada, US, uncountable
Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
Example: US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.
Listed forms: hawkey, hockie.
Source: Wiktionary — hockey.
noun
- US, slang, uncountable
Feces, excrement.
Listed forms: hawkey, hockie.
Source: Wiktionary — hockey.
noun
- alt-of, alternative, dated
Alternative form of oche.
Base or related entry: oche.
Listed forms: hockeys, hawkey, hockie.
Source: Wiktionary — hockey.
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 hockey.
noun
a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net
- field hockey
noun
a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks
- ice hockey
- hockey game
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is hockey 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 hockey
H(4) + O(1) + C(3) + K(5) + E(1) + Y(4) = 18 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 hockey
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 hockey
28 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in hockey. Showing up to 24, longest first.