plaint

plaint is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament. Face value is 8 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.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.
2. noun. An accusation or protest on account of an injury.
3. noun. A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing.
4. noun. a cry of sorrow and grief

   "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"

   Synonyms: lament, lamentation, wail

5. noun. (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed

Synonyms

lament, lamentation, wail

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plaint:

pliant

Common word forms

plaints, plaintful, plaintless

Words from these letters

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