Straw
Straw is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 8 points
- Letters
- 5
- Syllables
- 1
- How common
- Less common
Meaning of straw
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nounPlant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder.
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nounMaterial consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
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nounA variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white.
Similar: wheat
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verbCover or provide with or as if with straw.
“cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm”
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verbSpread by scattering ( is archaic).
“straw”
Similar: strew
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adjectiveOf a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored.
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of straw
Words inside straw
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- star4
- arts4
- rats4
- wars7
- swat7
- tsar4
- twas7
- raws7
- staw7
- tars4
- wart7
- wast7
- wats7
- taws7
- art3
- saw6
- war6
- was6
- rat3
- raw6
- sat3
- ars3
- ras3
- tar3
- tas3
- wat6
- taw6
- twa6
Words that rhyme with straw
- law
- saw
- aw
- draw
- shaw
- claw
- daw
- flaw
- haw
- jaw
- paw
- thaw
- caw
- chaw
- craw
- gnaw
- haugh
- maw
- slaw
- waugh
- yaw
- withdraw
- foresaw
- guffaw
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