shark
shark is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas. Face value is 12 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.
Definitions
- transitive/intransitive verb. Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
- transitive/intransitive verb. A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
- transitive/intransitive verb. Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
- transitive verb. To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
- intransitive verb. To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
- intransitive verb. To live by shifts and stratagems.
- noun. any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- noun. a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
"a card shark"
- noun. a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
- verb. hunt shark
- verb. play the shark; act with trickery
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shark:
Common word forms
sharks, sharked, sharker, sharkful, sharking
Words from these letters
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