spawn

spawn is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
2. transitive verb. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
3. intransitive verb. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
4. intransitive verb. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
5. transitive verb. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
6. transitive verb. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
7. transitive verb. The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
8. transitive verb. The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
9. noun. the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
10. verb. lay spawn

    "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

11. verb. call forth

    Synonyms: breed, engender

Synonyms

breed, engender

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spawn:

pawns

Common word forms

spawns, spawned, spawner, spawning

Words from these letters

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