honey
A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
Noun 4 meanings
A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
“The honey in the pot should last for years.”
A variety of this substance.
Something sweet or desirable.
A term of affection.
“Honey, would you take out the trash?”
Adjective 3 meanings
Involving or resembling honey.
Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
Honey-sweet.
Verb 4 meanings
To sweeten; to make agreeable.
To add honey to.
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
Etymology
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
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HONEY at a glance
HONEY has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (H 4 + O 1 + N 1 + E 1 + Y 4) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,740 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with honey
All rhymes- MONEY10
- ATTORNEY11
- JOURNEY17
- KIDNEY14
- RODNEY10
- CHIMNEY17
- BARNEY11
- SWEENEY13
- HACKNEY19
- CARNEY11
- GURNEY10
- TOURNEY10
One letter away
- MONEY10
- CONEY10
- HONED9
- HOMEY13
- HOKEY15
- BONEY10
- TONEY8
- HONES8
- HOLEY11
- HOOEY11
- HONER8
- HOSEY11
- PONEY10
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