simmer

simmer is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.
2. transitive verb. To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.
3. noun. temperature just below the boiling point

   "the stew remained at a simmer for hours"

4. verb. boil slowly at low temperature

   "simmer the sauce"

   "simmering water"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in simmer:

merism, mermis, mimers

Common word forms

simmers, simmered, simmering

Words from these letters

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