char

char is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Charr. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Alt. of Charr
2. noun. A car; a chariot.
3. noun. Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
4. transitive verb. Alt. of Chare
5. intransitive verb. Alt. of Chare
6. noun. To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
7. noun. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
8. noun. any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus

   Synonyms: charr

9. noun. a human female employed to do housework

   "the char will clean the carpet"

   "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

   Synonyms: charwoman, woman

10. noun. a charred substance
11. verb. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

    "The cook blackened the chicken breast"

    "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"

    Synonyms: blacken, scorch, sear

12. verb. burn to charcoal

    "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

    Synonyms: coal

Synonyms

charr, charwoman, woman, blacken, scorch, sear, coal

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in char:

arch, rach

Common word forms

chars, chared, charer, chares, charing, charity, charred, charring

Words from these letters

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