shuck

shuck is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shock of grain. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 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 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A shock of grain.
2. noun. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
3. noun. The shell of an oyster or clam.
4. transitive verb. To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
5. noun. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

   Synonyms: chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble

6. verb. remove the shucks from

   "shuck corn"

7. verb. remove from the shell

   "shuck oysters"

Synonyms

chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shuck:

hucks

Common word forms

shucks, shucked, shucker, shucking

Words from these letters

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