rod

rod is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
2. noun. An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
3. noun. A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
4. noun. A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
5. noun. A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
6. noun. An instrument for measuring.
7. noun. A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
8. noun. any rod-shaped bacterium
9. noun. a gangster's pistol

   Synonyms: gat

10. noun. a long thin implement made of metal or wood
11. noun. a visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light
12. noun. a square rod of land

    Synonyms: perch, pole

13. noun. a linear measure of 16.5 feet

    Synonyms: perch, pole

Synonyms

gat, perch, pole

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rod:

dor, ord

Common word forms

rods, rodes, rodded, rodder, roding, rodding, rodless

Words from these letters

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