derail

derail is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 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 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
2. verb. run off or leave the rails

   "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"

   Synonyms: jump

3. verb. cause to run off the tracks

   "they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste"

Synonyms

jump

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in derail:

ariled, dialer, laired, railed, redial, relaid

Common word forms

derails, derailed, derailer, derailing, derailment

Words from these letters

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