ferry

ferry is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 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 11 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
2. intransitive verb. To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.
3. transitive verb. A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.
4. transitive verb. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
5. transitive verb. A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.
6. noun. transport by boat or aircraft

   Synonyms: ferrying

7. noun. a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule

   Synonyms: ferryboat

8. verb. travel by ferry
9. verb. transport by ferry
10. verb. transport from one place to another

Synonyms

ferrying, ferryboat

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ferry:

freyr, fryer, refry

Common word forms

ferried, ferrier, ferries, ferrying

Words from these letters

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