groove

groove is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 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 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.
2. noun. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.
3. noun. A shaft or excavation.
4. transitive verb. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
5. noun. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

   "they fell into a conversational rut"

   Synonyms: rut

6. noun. (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

   Synonyms: vallecula

7. noun. a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

   Synonyms: channel

8. verb. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

   "furrow soil"

   Synonyms: furrow, rut

9. verb. make a groove in, or provide with a groove

   "groove a vinyl record"

Synonyms

rut, vallecula, channel, furrow

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in groove:

overgo

Common word forms

grooved, groover, grooves, grooving, grooveless

Words from these letters

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