zigzag

zigzag is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Something that has short turns or angles. Face value is 26 in Scrabble and 28 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 26 · Words With Friends 28 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Something that has short turns or angles.
2. noun. A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
3. noun. See Boyau.
4. adjective. Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
5. transitive verb. To form with short turns.
6. intransitive verb. To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
7. noun. an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions

   Synonyms: zag, zig

8. verb. travel along a zigzag path

   "The river zigzags through the countryside"

   Synonyms: crank

9. adjective. having short sharp turns or angles
10. adverb. in a zigzag course or on a zigzag path

    "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"

Synonyms

zag, zig, crank

Common word forms

zigzags, zigzagged, zigzagger, zigzagging

Words from these letters

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