tangle

tangle is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
2. noun. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
3. intransitive verb. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
4. noun. Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
5. verb. A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
6. verb. An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
7. noun. something jumbled or confused

   "a tangle of government regulations"

   Synonyms: maze, snarl

8. noun. a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

   "they carved their way through the tangle of vines"

9. verb. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

   "The child entangled the cord"

   Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl

10. verb. disarrange or rumple; dishevel

    "The strong wind tousled my hair"

    Synonyms: dishevel, tousle

11. verb. tangle or complicate

    "a ravelled story"

    Synonyms: knot, ravel

12. verb. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

    "They were swept up by the events"

    "don't drag me into this business"

    Synonyms: drag, embroil, sweep

Synonyms

maze, snarl, entangle, mat, dishevel, tousle, knot, ravel, drag, embroil, sweep

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tangle:

gelant, telang

Common word forms

tangled, tangler, tangles, tangling, tanglement

Words from these letters

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