scaly

scaly is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
2. adjective. Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
3. adjective. Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
4. adjective. Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
5. adjective. having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles

   Synonyms: scaled, scaley

6. adjective. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf

   Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy

Synonyms

scaled, scaley, lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scaly:

aclys, acyls, clays

Common word forms

scalier, scaliest

Words from these letters

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