turkey: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 13 letter points · starts with T · ends with Y
Meaning of turkey
noun
- countable
A bird in the genus Meleagris, usually with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck. A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- countable
A bird in the genus Meleagris, usually with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck. A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
- uncountable
The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
Example: All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
- countable
With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
Listed forms: turkeys, turkies, turkie.
Source: Wiktionary — turkey.
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 turkey.
noun
large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- Meleagris gallopavo
noun
a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
noun
an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is turkey in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of turkey
T(1) + U(1) + R(1) + K(5) + E(1) + Y(4) = 13 points.
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Anagrams of turkey
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from turkey
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