Dictionary Entry
rainbow
rainbow is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
- 2noun
an illusory hope
"chasing rainbows"
- 3noun
an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain
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