primary: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 14 letter points · starts with P · ends with Y
Meaning of primary
adj
First or earliest in a group or series.
Example: Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
Earliest formed; fundamental.
Example: Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
Source: Wiktionary — primary.
noun
A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
The first year of grade school.
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
Listed forms: primaries.
Source: Wiktionary — primary.
verb
- US, intransitive, transitive
To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- US, intransitive, transitive
To take part in a primary election.
Listed forms: primaries, primarying, primaried.
Source: Wiktionary — primary.
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 primary.
adjective
most important element
adjective
of or being the essential or basic part
noun
a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- primary election
noun
one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- primary feather
- primary quill
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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Letter-value score of primary
P(3) + R(1) + I(1) + M(3) + A(1) + R(1) + Y(4) = 14 points.
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Anagrams of primary
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 primary
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