accost

accost is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
2. transitive verb. To approach; to make up to.
3. transitive verb. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
4. intransitive verb. To adjoin; to lie alongside.
5. noun. Address; greeting.
6. verb. approach with an offer of sexual favors

   "he was solicited by a prostitute"

   "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

   Synonyms: hook, solicit

7. verb. speak to someone

   Synonyms: address

Synonyms

hook, solicit, address

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in accost:

coacts

Common word forms

accosts, accosted, accosting, accostable

Words from these letters

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