injury: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 16 letter points · starts with I · ends with Y
Meaning of injury
noun
- countable, uncountable
Damage to the body of a living thing.
Example: The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- countable, uncountable
Other forms of damage sustained by a living thing, e.g. psychologically.
- countable, uncountable
The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.
Example: Slander is an injury to the character.
- countable, uncountable
Injustice.
Listed forms: injuries.
Source: Wiktionary — injury.
verb
- obsolete, transitive
To wrong, to injure.
Listed forms: injuries, injurying, injuried.
Source: Wiktionary — injury.
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 injury.
noun
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
noun
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
- accidental injury
noun
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- wound
- combat injury
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is injury in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of injury
I(1) + N(1) + J(8) + U(1) + R(1) + Y(4) = 16 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 injury
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 injury
12 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in injury. Showing up to 24, longest first.