urchin

urchin is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hedgehog. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 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 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hedgehog.
2. noun. A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
3. noun. A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
4. noun. A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
5. noun. One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
6. adjective. Rough; pricking; piercing.
7. noun. poor and often mischievous city child

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in urchin:

unrich

Common word forms

urchins, urchinly

Words from these letters

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