riddle

riddle is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 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 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
2. noun. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
3. transitive verb. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
4. transitive verb. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
5. noun. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
6. transitive verb. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
7. intransitive verb. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
8. noun. a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
9. noun. a difficult problem

   Synonyms: conundrum, enigma

10. verb. set a difficult problem or riddle

    "riddle me a riddle"

11. verb. explain a riddle
12. verb. speak in riddles
13. verb. spread or diffuse through

    "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"

    "music penetrated the entire building"

    Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade

14. verb. pierce with many holes

    "The bullets riddled his body"

15. verb. separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

    Synonyms: screen

Synonyms

conundrum, enigma, diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, screen

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in riddle:

didler, dirled, dreidl, lidder, riddel

Common word forms

riddled, riddler, riddles, riddling

Words from these letters

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