wile
wile is a 4-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
- transitive verb. To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
- transitive verb. To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
- noun. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Synonyms
chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wile:
Common word forms
wiled, wiles, wiling, wileful, wileless
Words from these letters
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