cackle

cackle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. Face value is 14 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.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
2. intransitive verb. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
3. intransitive verb. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
4. noun. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
5. noun. Idle talk; silly prattle.
6. noun. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
7. noun. noisy talk

   Synonyms: chatter, yack, yak

8. noun. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
9. verb. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
10. verb. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
11. verb. talk or utter in a cackling manner

    "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"

Synonyms

chatter, yack, yak

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cackle:

cackel

Common word forms

cackled, cackler, cackles, cackling

Words from these letters

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