sty

sty is a 3-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pen or inclosure for swine. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 5 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. A pen or inclosure for swine.
2. intransitive verb. A place of bestial debauchery.
3. transitive verb. To shut up in, or as in, a sty.
4. intransitive verb. To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.
5. intransitive verb. An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.
6. noun. a pen for swine

   Synonyms: pigpen, pigsty

7. noun. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

   Synonyms: hordeolum, stye

Synonyms

pigpen, pigsty, hordeolum, stye

Common word forms

stied, sties, styed, styes, styful, stying

Words from these letters

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