pen

pen is a 3-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, noun & verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A feather. Face value is 5 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.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A feather.
2. noun. A wing.
3. noun. An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
4. noun. Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
5. noun. The internal shell of a squid.
6. noun. A female swan.
7. transitive verb. To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
8. noun & verb. To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
9. noun. A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
10. noun. female swan
11. noun. a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
12. noun. an enclosure for confining livestock
13. noun. a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

    Synonyms: penitentiary

14. noun. a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play

    Synonyms: playpen

15. verb. produce a literary work

    "She composed a poem"

    "He wrote four novels"

    Synonyms: compose, indite, write

Synonyms

penitentiary, playpen, compose, indite, write

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pen:

nep

Common word forms

pens, penal, penes, penest, penful, penned, penner, penning

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