flake

flake is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A paling; a hurdle. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 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 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A paling; a hurdle.
2. noun. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
3. noun. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
4. noun. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
5. noun. A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
6. noun. A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
7. transitive verb. To form into flakes.
8. intransitive verb. To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
9. noun. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

   "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"

   Synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap

10. noun. a person with an unusual or odd personality

    Synonyms: eccentric, geek, oddball

11. noun. a crystal of snow

    Synonyms: snowflake

12. verb. come off in flakes or thin small pieces

    "The paint in my house is peeling off"

    Synonyms: peel

13. verb. cover with flakes or as if with flakes
14. verb. form into flakes

    "The substances started to flake"

Synonyms

bit, chip, fleck, scrap, eccentric, geek, oddball, snowflake, peel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in flake:

fleak

Common word forms

flaked, flaker, flakes, flaking, flakeless

Words from these letters

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