essay

essay is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend. Face value is 8 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
2. noun. A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.
3. noun. An assay. See Assay, n.
4. noun. To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
5. noun. To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
6. noun. a tentative attempt
7. noun. an analytic or interpretive literary composition
8. verb. make an effort or attempt

   "He tried to shake off his fears"

   "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"

   Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try

9. verb. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

   "This approach has been tried with good results"

   "Test this recipe"

   Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try

Synonyms

assay, attempt, seek, try, examine, prove, test

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in essay:

eyass

Common word forms

essays, essayed, essayer, essaying

Words from these letters

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