spine

spine is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn. 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 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
2. noun. A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
3. noun. One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
4. noun. The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
5. noun. Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
6. noun. a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
7. noun. the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

   "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book"

   Synonyms: backbone

8. noun. the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

   "the fall broke his back"

   Synonyms: back, backbone, rachis

9. noun. a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

   Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn

10. noun. any sharply pointed projection

    Synonyms: acantha, spur

Synonyms

backbone, back, rachis, pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn, acantha, spur

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spine:

insep, peins, penis, pines, snipe

Common word forms

spined, spines, spineless

Words from these letters

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