racket

racket is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 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 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
2. noun. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
3. noun. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
4. noun. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
5. transitive verb. To strike with, or as with, a racket.
6. noun. Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
7. noun. A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
8. intransitive verb. To make a confused noise or racket.
9. intransitive verb. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
10. intransitive verb. To carouse or engage in dissipation.
11. noun. an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
12. noun. a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games

    Synonyms: racquet

13. noun. the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

    "modern music is just noise to me"

    Synonyms: dissonance, noise

14. noun. a loud and disturbing noise
15. verb. hit (a ball) with a racket
16. verb. make loud and annoying noises
17. verb. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

    "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"

    "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"

    Synonyms: jollify, revel, wassail

Synonyms

racquet, dissonance, noise, jollify, revel, wassail

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in racket:

retack, tacker

Common word forms

rackets, racketed, racketer, racketing

Words from these letters

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