leprosy is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

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Meanings

Noun (USUALY UNCOUNTABLE)

(medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.
• Leprosy seems to have spread from India to the Middle East by early antiquity and from there to Europe during the time of the Roman Empire.
(medicine now usually proscribed) Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical) the various diseases considered "tzaraath" in the Old Testament.
(figurative) Anything considered similarly permanent, harmful, and communicable, particularly when such a thing should be handled by avoidance or isolation of its victims.
• Sin is a spiritual leprosy.

leprosy is a Scrabble valid word

• International English (Sowpods) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• US English (TWL06) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• 12 points

leprosy is an iScramble valid word

• The word is valid in iScramble ✓
• 28 points

leprosy is an QuickWords valid word

• The word is valid in QuickWords ✓
• 28 points

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Same letters words (Anagrams)

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Same letters plus one

• CROPLEYS
• LEAPROSY
• PEROXYLS
• PERSONLY
• POLYARES
• POLYMERS
• PROSTYLE
• PROTYLES
• PTEROYLS
• PYRENOLS
• PYROLYSE
• PYRROLES
• SLOPPERY
• SPOILERY

Same letters minus one

• LOPERS
• LOREYS
• OPLERS
• OSPREY
• PLYERS
• POLERS
• POLEYS
• POYERS
• POYSER
• PROLES
• REYLOS
• ROLEYS
• ROPLEY
• ROYLES
• SLOPER
• SLOPEY
• SORELY
• SORLEY
• SPOERL
• SPOYLE