pleat

pleat is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun & transitive verberb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Plait. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun & transitive verberb. See Plait.
2. noun. any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape

   Synonyms: plait

3. verb. fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth"

   Synonyms: plicate

4. verb. pleat or gather into a ruffle

   "ruffle the curtain fabric"

   Synonyms: ruffle

Synonyms

plait, plicate, ruffle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pleat:

leapt, lepta, palet, patel, pelta, petal, plate, tepal

Common word forms

pleats, pleated, pleater, pleating, pleatless

Words from these letters

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