write

write is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures. Face value is 8 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.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
2. transitive verb. To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
3. transitive verb. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
4. transitive verb. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
5. transitive verb. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
6. intransitive verb. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
7. intransitive verb. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
8. intransitive verb. To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
9. intransitive verb. To compose or send letters.
10. verb. communicate or express by writing

    "Please write to me every week"

11. verb. record data on a computer

    "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"

    Synonyms: save

12. verb. communicate (with) in writing

    "Write her soon, please!"

13. verb. communicate by letter

    "He wrote that he would be coming soon"

14. verb. mark or trace on a surface

    "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"

    "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"

15. verb. create code, write a computer program

    "She writes code faster than anybody else"

16. verb. produce a literary work

    "She composed a poem"

    "He wrote four novels"

    Synonyms: compose, indite, pen

17. verb. write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)

    "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"

    Synonyms: spell

18. verb. write music

    "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"

    Synonyms: compose

19. verb. have (one's written work) issued for publication

    "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"

    "She published 25 books during her long career"

    Synonyms: publish

Synonyms

save, compose, indite, pen, spell, publish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in write:

twier, twire

Common word forms

writer, writes, writing, writeable

Words from these letters

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