husk

husk is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 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 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
2. noun. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
3. transitive verb. To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.
4. noun. outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
5. noun. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

   Synonyms: chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble

6. verb. remove the husks from

   "husk corn"

   Synonyms: shell

Synonyms

chaff, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble, shell

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in husk:

sukh

Common word forms

husks, husked, husker, husking

Words from these letters

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