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— English words —

• sly adj. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
• sly adj. (Having a positive connotation) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice.
• sly adj. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle.
• sly adj. Light or delicate; slight; thin.
• sly adv. Slyly.
• Sly prop.n. A diminutive of the male given name Sylvester.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Czech
  • šly v. Inanimate masculine plural past participle of jít, feminine plural past participle of jít.
• Icelandic
  • slý n. Green algae.
• Lower sorbian
  • sly adj. Obsolete spelling of zły (“bad, evil”).
• Middle english
  • sly adj. Judicious, considered, shrewd; having or indicative of great wisdom.
  • sly adj. Adept, expert, quality; having or indicative of great expertise.
  • sly adj. Sly, artful, wily; employing or being an example of deception.
  • sly adj. (Rare) Attractive; having good looks.
  • sly adj. (Rare) Unknown or hidden.
• Swedish
  • sly n. Very young trees, in particular while growing very densely.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• sly bijv. Sluw.

— English words, defined in French —

• sly adj. Matois, malin.
• Sly n.prop. Diminutif de Sylvester.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• sly adj. Astuto, malicioso.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• sly agg. Furbo, scaltro.

79 English words from 15 English definitions

action Adept algae and artful Artfully as␣to Attractive bad being connotation considered cunning deception delicate densely dexterous diminutive Done employing escape evil example expert expertise feminine given given␣name good good␣looks great Green Green␣algae growing having hidden Inanimate indicative in␣particular Judicious Light looks male marked masculine mischievous name notice Obsolete participle particular past past␣participle performing plural positive quality Rare secrecy secretly shrewd slight Sly Slyly so␣as so␣as␣to spelling subtle Sylvester the thin trees Unknown very while wily wisdom with young

1 English word from 5 foreign definitions

Sylvester

8 foreign words from 5 foreign definitions

Astuto Diminutif Furbo malicioso malin Matois scaltro Sluw

24 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Slye slyer Slyes slyly slymy slype slyest sly␣fox slyish slymie slypes slyboot sly-boot sly-grog slyness slyboots sly-boots sly␣foxes sly-grogs sly␣as␣a␣fox slynesses Slytherin Slytherins Slytherinish

33 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Aislyn Joslyn Nislys Roslyn Aislynn Chaslyn Glaslyn Sislyan dyslysin mislying Presslys Sislyans Vanslyke King's␣Lynn Vanslykes cateslytin Billingslys Cahenslyism Cahenslyist Cahenslyite grissly␣bear Cahenslyists Cahenslyites grissly␣bears waxes␣lyrical Bishops␣Lydeard translymphatic Burkitt's␣lymphoma Hodgkin's␣lymphoma Burkitt's␣lymphomas but␣seriously␣folks Hodgkin's␣lymphomas Burkitt's␣lymphomata

1404 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Gasly Kisly misly Nisly srsly unsly wisly bassly Beesly bossly grisly hassly massly measly pussly thusly tously bogusly crassly crossly greisly griesly grossly needsly piously pressly Pressly Swissly wojusly by␣the␣sly demissly diversly famously fumously joyously mucously odiously on␣the␣sly porously remissly timously ungrisly venously vinously agelessly aimlessly airlessly amorously anxiously aqueously +1354 words

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

YLs YLS

6 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

lys Lys syl- YLs YLS YSL

32 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Blys flys Flys Glys lays leys loys Luys lyes lyns LYPs lyse LYSM lyso- LYST Lysy plys rlys sely SFYL slay Slay sley Slye soly soyl syle syli SYLK Sylt XYLs YLLs

24 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ls Ls LS l's L's L&S L.S. ly Ly LY -ly ly- SL Sl. S&L S␣&␣L Sy SY YL -yl ys Ys y's Y's

57 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Aly bly Bly cly Ely fly Fly Gly gly- ily ILY -ily kly Kly Mly 'oly ply rly RLY say SBY Sey. SFY shy Shy sky Sky -sky SLA SLC SLD SLE SLG Slg. SLI Slk. SLM Sln. SLO SLP SLQ SLR SLs SLS S&Ls sl*t slv SLV sny soy Soy spy sry Sry sty swy vly

11 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ly Ly LY -ly ly- SL Sl. S&L S␣&␣L Sy SY

5 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

sely slay Slay sley soly

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