novice

novice is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro. 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.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
2. noun. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.
3. noun. One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.
4. adjective. Like a novice; becoming a novice.
5. noun. someone new to a field or activity

   Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro

6. noun. someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

   Synonyms: novitiate

Synonyms

beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro, novitiate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in novice:

covine, nocive

Common word forms

novices

Words from these letters

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