fumble

fumble is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
2. intransitive verb. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
3. intransitive verb. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
4. transitive verb. To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
5. noun. (sports) dropping the ball

   Synonyms: muff

6. verb. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

   "fumble a grounder"

7. verb. handle clumsily
8. verb. feel about uncertainly or blindly

   "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

   Synonyms: grope

9. verb. make one's way clumsily or blindly

   "He fumbled towards the door"

   Synonyms: blunder

10. verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

    "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"

    "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

    Synonyms: blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, mishandle, muff

Synonyms

muff, grope, blunder, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, mishandle, spoil

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fumble:

beflum

Common word forms

fumbled, fumbler, fumbles, fumbling

Words from these letters

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