straw

straw is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 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 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
2. noun. A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
3. noun. The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
4. noun. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
5. noun. a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
6. noun. a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

   Synonyms: wheat

7. noun. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

   Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble

8. noun. plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
9. verb. spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

   "strew toys all over the carpet"

   Synonyms: strew

10. verb. cover or provide with or as if with straw

    "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"

11. adjective. of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

Synonyms

wheat, chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble, strew

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in straw:

starw, swart, warst, warts, wrast

Common word forms

straws, strawed, strawen, strawer, strawing, strawless

Words from these letters

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