shoal

shoal is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 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 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
2. intransitive verb. To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
3. adjective. Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
4. noun. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
5. noun. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
6. intransitive verb. To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
7. transitive verb. To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
8. noun. a large group of fish

   "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

   Synonyms: school

9. noun. a stretch of shallow water

   Synonyms: shallow

10. noun. a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
11. verb. become shallow

    "the lake shallowed over time"

    Synonyms: shallow

12. verb. make shallow

    "The silt shallowed the canal"

    Synonyms: shallow

Synonyms

school, shallow

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shoal:

halos, shola

Common word forms

shoals, shoaled, shoaler, shoalest, shoaling, shoalness

Words from these letters

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