jail

jail is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 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 14 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
2. transitive verb. To imprison.
3. noun. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

   Synonyms: clink, gaol, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer

4. verb. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

   "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"

   "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

   Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, remand

Synonyms

clink, gaol, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, remand

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in jail:

lija

Common word forms

jails, jailed, jailer, jailing, jailable, jailless

Words from these letters

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