eke

eke is a 3-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb, adverb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
2. adverb. In addition; also; likewise.
3. noun. An addition.

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in eke:

eek, kee

Common word forms

eked, eker, ekes, eking

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for EKE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.