splay

splay is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To display; to spread. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 11 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To display; to spread.
2. transitive verb. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
3. transitive verb. To spay; to castrate.
4. transitive verb. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
5. adjective. Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
6. adjective. A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
7. noun. an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
8. verb. move out of position

   "dislocate joints"

   "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"

   Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip

9. verb. turn outward

   "These birds can splay out their toes"

   "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"

   Synonyms: rotate

10. verb. spread open or apart

    "He splayed his huge hands over the table"

11. adjective. turned outward in an ungainly manner

    "splay knees"

Synonyms

dislocate, luxate, slip, rotate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in splay:

palsy, plays

Common word forms

splays, splayed, splayer, splaying

Words from these letters

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