Spry

Expression using "spry": become spry. Additional references.

Albanian

i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious), i lëvizshëm (dapper, inconstant, live, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, removable, shifting, sliding, variable), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشيط (active, adroit, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, lively, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, sprightly, stout, strenuous, vigorous, vivacious), ‏خفيف الحركة (agile), ‏خفيف (agile, brisk, easy-moving, light, light footed, lively, nimble, quick, sprightly, swift), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy), ‏شيق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

чевръст (alert, light footed, nimble, prompt, ready, slippy, smart), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy). (various references)

Chinese 

輕快 (light and quick; agile; spry, lively; blithe). (various references)

Czech

svižný (deft, nimble, rattling, spanking, swinging), èilý (active, alert, brisk, forward, spirited, sprightly, swift). (various references)

Farsi 

فرز (Agile, Nimble, Quick, Swift), چالاک (Adroit, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Handy, Jimmy, Lissome, Natty, Nimble, Nippy, Pawky, Peppy, Prompt, Sprightly), چابک (Adroit, Agile, Brisk, Clever, Handy, Light, Lissome, Nimble, Perky, Quick, Rapid, Speedy, Swift), زرنگ (Adroit, Agile, Apt, Bright, Clever, Dapper, Jaunty, Nimble, Pawky, Shifty, Shrewd, Slicker, Smart, Snide), دانا (Astute, Sagacious, Sage, Savant, Wise), باهوش (Bright, Clever, Ingenious, Intelligent, Keen, Precocious, Sagacious, Shrewd, Smart, Spiffy, Swish, Understanding). (various references)

Finnish

virkku (alert, brisk), virkeä (animated, brisk, lively, perky, spirited, vigorous), vireä (alert, mentally active), terhakka (brisk, hale and hearty, lively, vigorous). (various references)

French

vif (spirited, sprightly), fringant, amusant (sportive), alerte (springy). (various references)

German

rüstig (hale, lusty, sprightly). (various references)

Greek 

σβέλτοσ (alert, dapper, fleet, lissom, lissome, mobile, natty, nifty, nimble, nippy, svelte), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), ευκίνητοσ (agile, light footed, lithe, mobile, nimble, nippy, svelte, vanquishable, vincible). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא חיים (graphic, live, lively, racy, snappy, sprightly, vibrant), קל ת� וע�" (agile), פעיל (active, operative, transitive). (various references)

Hungarian

virgonc, fürge (agile, beany, brisk, deft, fleet, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, lively, mercurial, nifty, nimble, nippy, perky, quick, rattling, smart, swift). (various references)

Indonesian

gancang (alert, quick), galir (agile, articulate, fluent, glib, nimble). (various references)

Italian

vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), energico (active, drastic, energetic, peppy, pushing, strenuous, strong, vigorous), attivo (active, alive, assets, brisk, busy, hardworking, in action, industrious, instrumental, lively, practicing, practising, strenuous, working), arzillo (alert, brisk, dapper, jaunty, lively, sprightly, tingling). (various references)

Manx

bioyr (breezy, bright, brisk, frisky, graphic, lively, nippy, smart, soulstirring, spirited, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, vivid as imagination, volatile). (various references)

Pig Latin

yspray

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), ativo (abuzz, acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetic, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, nippy, operative, pushful, quick, rangy, rustler, smart, stirring, strenuous, vivacious, vivid), ágil (able, active, adroit, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, keen, kittenish, light-footed, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, skillful, springy, volant). (various references)

Romanian

vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, vigorous, volatile), harnic (active, busily, busy, diligent, diligently, hard working, hardworking, industrious, industriously, light footed, living, operose, sedulous, toilsome), activ (acting, active, actively, afoot, aggressive, agile, alive, assets, bouncing, brisk, busy, dapper, diligent, dynamic, efficient, energetic, fierce, go ahead, industrious, living, operative, pragmatic, quick, regular). (various references)

Russian 

живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kočoperan, žustar (agile, brisk, dashing, glowing, hot, lively, pert, smart, snappy, spunky). (various references)

Spanish

activo (abuzz, active, alert, alive, assets, bouncy, brisk, bustling, deedful, hardworking, humming, in action, tangible, transitive, up and doing), ágil (able, adroit, agile, clever, deft, dexterous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nifty, nimble, nippy, proficient, quick, skillful, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

rask (brisk, quick, slippy, swift). (various references)

Turkish

faal (active, busy, energetic, full of action, on the go, operative, rousing, strenuous, up and doing), dinç (florid, fresh, Hale, hearty, husky, lusty, red blooded, robust, sinewed, sinewy, succulent, upstanding, vigorous, youthful), açıkgöz (alert, astute, canny, cunning, fly, heady, hip, knowing, leery, nimble, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, smart, up and coming, vigilant, wide awake), çevik (agile, brisk, dapper, fleet, glib, light footed, limber, lissom, lissome, nimble, nippy, swift, tripping, volant). (various references)

Ukrainian

моторний (adroit, agile, alert, dapper, dashing, deft, dexterous, lissome, lithesome, mercurial, motor, nimble, nippy, ready, volant), акуратний (careful, natty, neat, orderly, shipshape, snug). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhanh nhẹn (agile, alert, alive, crispy, dapper, tripping), hoạt bát (alert, bright, chipper, chirpy, dapper, mercurial, quick, up-and-coming, vivacious, volatile). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spry": spryer, spryest, spryly, spryness, sprynesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apry, Epryn, Espriu, Espry, opry, ospry, ps, scry, sery, shry, siry, Soryu, sparry, spery, spey, sphy, sphyg, spqr, spr, spre, spri, sprif, sprm, spyx, stry, sury. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pry, spy.

+1 letter: prays, preys, prosy, pursy, pyres, raspy, spiry, spray, syrup.

+2 letters: crispy, crypts, cypres, cyprus, dropsy, osprey, pastry, payers, payors, plyers, prissy, pryers, psywar, pyrans, repays, sharpy, sirupy, sparky, sparry, sphery, sporty, sprays, sprucy, spryer, spryly, spurry, stripy, sypher, syrups, syrupy.

+3 letters: apyrase, crisply, cryptos, cyphers, cypress, frypans, gyppers, gypster, hydrops, jaspery, leprosy, ospreys, papyrus, parlays, parleys, parsley, pessary, phrensy, pirayas, piscary, players, prayers, prepays, preyers, propyls, prosily, prosody, protyls, psaltry, psywars, pursily, purveys, pylorus, pyrenes, pyrites, pyrolas, pyrones, pyropes, pyrosis, pyrrols, pyurias, replays, respray, retypes, satrapy, scrappy, scrimpy, sharply, shrimpy, sparely, sparkly, spicery, spidery, splurgy, sprawly, sprayed, sprayer, spriggy, springy, spryest, spurrey, stroppy, syncarp, syphers, syrphid, trypsin, yappers, yaupers, yawpers, yelpers, zephyrs.