aback

aback is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adverb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Toward the back or rear; backward. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adverb. Toward the back or rear; backward.
2. adverb. Behind; in the rear.
3. adverb. Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.
4. noun. An abacus.
5. adverb. by surprise

   "taken aback by the caustic remarks"

6. adverb. having the wind against the forward side of the sails

   "the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback"

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