snipe

snipe is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 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 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
2. noun. A fool; a blockhead.
3. noun. a gunshot from a concealed location
4. noun. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
5. verb. attack in speech or writing

   "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"

   Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, round

6. verb. aim and shoot with great precision

   Synonyms: sharpshoot

7. verb. hunt or shoot snipe

Synonyms

assail, assault, attack, round, sharpshoot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in snipe:

insep, peins, penis, pines, spine

Common word forms

sniped, sniper, snipes, sniping

Words from these letters

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