shack

shack is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 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 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
2. transitive verb. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
3. transitive verb. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
4. noun. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
5. noun. Liberty of winter pasturage.
6. noun. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
7. noun. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

   Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty

8. verb. move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly

   "John trailed behind his class mates"

   "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"

   Synonyms: trail

9. verb. make one's home in a particular place or community

   "may parents reside in Florida"

   Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside

Synonyms

hovel, hut, hutch, shanty, trail, domicile, domiciliate, reside

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shack:

hacks

Common word forms

shacks, shacked, shacker, shackly, shacking

Words from these letters

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