handsel

handsel is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Face value is 11 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.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.
2. noun. Price; payment.
3. noun. To give a handsel to.
4. noun. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in handsel:

handles

Common word forms

handsels, handseled, handseling, handselled, handseller, handselling

Words from these letters

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