supply: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 13 letter points · starts with S · ends with Y
Meaning of supply
verb
- transitive
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
Example: to supply money for the war
- transitive
To furnish or equip with.
Example: to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
- transitive
To fill up, or keep full.
Example: Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
- transitive
To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
Listed forms: supplies, supplying, supplied.
Source: Wiktionary — supply.
noun
- uncountable
The act of supplying.
- countable
An amount of something supplied.
Example: A supply of good drinking water is essential.
- countable, uncountable
The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
Example: Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
- countable, in-plural, uncountable
Provisions.
Example: They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
Listed forms: supplies.
Source: Wiktionary — supply.
adv
Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
Listed forms: supplely.
Source: Wiktionary — supply.
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 supply.
noun
the activity of supplying or providing something
verb
give something useful or necessary to
verb
circulate or distribute or equip with
verb
give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is supply in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of supply
S(1) + U(1) + P(3) + P(3) + L(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 supply
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 supply
19 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in supply. Showing up to 24, longest first.