Dictionary Entry
backset
backset is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
- 2noun
Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
- 3intransitive verb
To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
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