priority: meaning and words from its letters
8 letters · 13 letter points · starts with P · ends with Y
Meaning of priority
noun
- countable, uncountable
An item's relative importance.
Example: He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
- countable, uncountable
A goal of a person or an organisation.
Example: She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
- countable, uncountable
The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
Example: In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.
- countable, uncountable
A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
Listed forms: priorities.
Source: Wiktionary — priority.
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 priority.
noun
status established in order of importance or urgency
noun
preceding in time
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is priority in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of priority
P(3) + R(1) + I(1) + O(1) + R(1) + I(1) + T(1) + Y(4) = 13 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 priority
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 priority
47 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in priority. Showing up to 24, longest first.