plunk

plunk is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 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 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly

   Synonyms: plunker

2. noun. a hollow twanging sound
3. verb. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

   "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

   Synonyms: pick, pluck

4. verb. set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise

   "He planked the money on the table"

   "He planked himself into the sofa"

   Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump

5. verb. drop steeply

   "the stock market plunged"

   Synonyms: dive, plunge

6. verb. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

   Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk

7. adverb. with a short hollow thud

   "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"

   Synonyms: plop

Synonyms

plunker, pick, pluck, flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, dive, plunge, clop, clump, clunk

Common word forms

plunks, plunked, plunker, plunking

Words from these letters

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