hole

hole is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Whole. Face value is 7 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Whole.
2. noun. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
3. noun. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
4. noun. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
5. noun. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
6. intransitive verb. To go or get into a hole.
7. noun. an opening deliberately made in or through something
8. noun. one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course

   "he played 18 holes"

9. noun. informal terms for the mouth

   Synonyms: cakehole, gob, maw, trap, yap

10. noun. an opening into or through something
11. noun. a depression hollowed out of solid matter

    Synonyms: hollow

12. noun. an unoccupied space
13. noun. informal terms for a difficult situation

    "he got into a terrible fix"

    "he made a muddle of his marriage"

    Synonyms: fix, jam, mess, muddle, pickle

14. noun. a fault

    "he shot holes in my argument"

15. verb. make holes in
16. verb. hit the ball into the hole

Synonyms

cakehole, gob, maw, trap, yap, hollow, fix, jam, mess, muddle, pickle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hole:

helo

Common word forms

holed, holer, holes, holing, holeable, holeless

Words from these letters

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