cork

cork is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
2. noun. A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
3. noun. A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
4. transitive verb. To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
5. transitive verb. To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
6. noun. a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

   Synonyms: bob, bobber, bobfloat

7. noun. the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
8. noun. a port city in southern Ireland
9. noun. outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
10. noun. (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

    Synonyms: phellem

11. verb. stuff with cork

    "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"

12. verb. close a bottle with a cork

Synonyms

bob, bobber, bobfloat, phellem

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cork:

rock

Common word forms

corks, corked, corker, corking

Words from these letters

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