rut

rut is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists. Face value is 3 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 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
2. noun. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
3. intransitive verb. To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
4. transitive verb. To cover in copulation.
5. noun. A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
6. transitive verb. To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
7. noun. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

   "they fell into a conversational rut"

   Synonyms: groove

8. noun. a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
9. noun. applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

   Synonyms: estrus, heat, oestrus

10. verb. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

    "furrow soil"

    Synonyms: furrow, groove

11. verb. be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals

Synonyms

groove, estrus, heat, oestrus, furrow

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rut:

tur

Common word forms

ruts, rutted, rutter, rutting

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