wharf

wharf is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier. Face value is 14 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
2. noun. The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
3. transitive verb. To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.
4. transitive verb. To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.
5. noun. a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats

   Synonyms: dock, pier, wharfage

6. verb. moor at a wharf

   "The ship was wharfed"

7. verb. come into or dock at a wharf

   "the big ship wharfed in the evening"

   Synonyms: berth, moor

8. verb. discharge at a wharf

   "wharf the passengers"

9. verb. store on a wharf

   "Wharf the merchandise"

10. verb. provide with a wharf

    "Wharf the mouth of the river"

Synonyms

dock, pier, wharfage, berth, moor

Common word forms

wharfs, wharfed, wharfing, wharfless

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for WHARF lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.