sprinkle

sprinkle is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
2. intransitive verb. To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
3. intransitive verb. To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
4. intransitive verb. To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.
5. intransitive verb. To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.
6. intransitive verb. To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.
7. noun. A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.
8. noun. A utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler.
9. noun. the act of sprinkling or splashing water

   "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"

   "a sparge of warm water over the malt"

   Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling

10. noun. a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby

    Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling

11. verb. scatter with liquid; wet lightly

    "Sprinkle the lawn"

    Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge

12. verb. cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force

    "She splashed the water around her"

    Synonyms: splash, splosh

13. verb. distribute loosely

    "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"

    Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter

14. verb. rain gently

    "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"

    Synonyms: patter, spatter, spit

Synonyms

sparge, sprinkling, scattering, besprinkle, splash, splosh, disperse, dot, dust, scatter, patter, spatter, spit

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sprinkle:

plinkers

Common word forms

sprinkled, sprinkler, sprinkles, sprinkling

Words from these letters

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