riffle

riffle is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple. 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 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
2. noun. shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
3. noun. a small wave on the surface of a liquid

   Synonyms: ripple, rippling, wavelet

4. verb. shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
5. verb. twitch or flutter

   "the paper flicked"

   Synonyms: flick, ruffle

6. verb. stir up (water) so as to form ripples

   Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate

7. verb. look through a book or other written material

   "He thumbed through the report"

   "She leafed through the volume"

   Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb

Synonyms

ripple, rippling, wavelet, flick, ruffle, cockle, undulate, flip, leaf, riff, thumb

Common word forms

riffled, riffler, riffles, riffling

Words from these letters

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