fin

fin is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To carve or cut up, as a chub. Face value is 6 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 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To carve or cut up, as a chub.
2. noun. End; conclusion; object.
3. noun. An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
4. noun. A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
5. noun. A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
6. noun. The hand.
7. noun. A blade of whalebone.
8. noun. A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
9. noun. The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
10. noun. A feather; a spline.
11. noun. A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
12. noun. organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
13. noun. a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
14. noun. a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)

    Synonyms: flipper

15. noun. one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain

    Synonyms: louver, louvre

16. noun. one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile

    Synonyms: tailfin

17. noun. the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

    Synonyms: cinque, five, fivesome, pentad, phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet

18. verb. show the fins above the water while swimming

    "The sharks were finning near the surface"

19. verb. propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
20. verb. equip (a car) with fins

Synonyms

flipper, louver, louvre, tailfin, cinque, five, fivesome, pentad, phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fin:

inf

Common word forms

fins, final, fined, finer, fines, finest, fining, finity, finned, finner, finable, finless, finning

Words from these letters

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