sable

sable is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur. Face value is 7 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
2. noun. The fur of the sable.
3. noun. A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
4. noun. The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
5. adjective. Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
6. transitive verb. To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
7. noun. marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
8. noun. a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
9. noun. an artist's brush made of sable hairs
10. noun. a very dark black

    Synonyms: ebony

11. noun. the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
12. adjective. of a dark somewhat brownish black

Synonyms

ebony

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sable:

ables, bales, basel, basle, beals, blase

Common word forms

sabler, sables, sablest, sableness

Words from these letters

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