violet

violet is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor). Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 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 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
2. noun. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
3. noun. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
4. noun. Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
5. noun. Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
6. noun. a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
7. noun. any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers
8. adjective. of a color intermediate between red and blue

   Synonyms: purple, purplish

Synonyms

purple, purplish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in violet:

olivet, toivel

Common word forms

violets

Words from these letters

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