ploy

ploy is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sport; frolic. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 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 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Sport; frolic.
2. intransitive verb. To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
3. noun. a maneuver in a game or conversation

   Synonyms: gambit, stratagem

4. noun. an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

   Synonyms: gambit

Synonyms

gambit, stratagem

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ploy:

poly

Common word forms

ploys, ployed, ployes, ploying, ployment

Words from these letters

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