ricochet

ricochet is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
2. transitive verb. To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
3. intransitive verb. To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
4. noun. a glancing rebound

   Synonyms: carom

5. verb. spring back; spring away from an impact

   "The rubber ball bounced"

   "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

   Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring

Synonyms

carom, bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring

Common word forms

ricochets, ricocheted, ricocheting, ricochetted, ricochetting

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for RICOCHET lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.