rustle

rustle is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 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 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
2. intransitive verb. To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
3. transitive verb. To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
4. noun. A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
5. noun. a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind

   Synonyms: rustling, whisper, whispering

6. verb. make a dry crackling sound

   "rustling silk"

   "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"

7. verb. forage food
8. verb. take illegally

   "rustle cattle"

   Synonyms: lift

Synonyms

rustling, whisper, whispering, lift

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rustle:

luster, lustre, result, sutler, ulster

Common word forms

rustled, rustler, rustles, rustling

Words from these letters

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