snake

snake is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 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 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
2. transitive verb. To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
3. transitive verb. To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
4. intransitive verb. To crawl like a snake.
5. noun. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

   Synonyms: ophidian, serpent

6. noun. something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
7. noun. a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

   Synonyms: hydra

8. noun. a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
9. noun. a deceitful or treacherous person
10. verb. move along a winding path

    "The army snaked through the jungle"

11. verb. move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
12. verb. form a snake-like pattern

    "The river snakes through the valley"

Synonyms

ophidian, serpent, hydra

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in snake:

kanes, skean, sneak

Common word forms

snaked, snaker, snakes, snaking, snakeless

Words from these letters

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