comb
VERBNOUN
/koʊm/
4 LETTERS · 1 SYLLABLE · STARTS WITH C
comb is a valid 4-letter word worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
C3O1M3B3
3 + 1 + 3 + 3 =10 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 20TRIPLE WORD → 30
MEANING
What does comb mean?
VERB · 3 SENSES
1
Search thoroughly.
“They combed the area for the missing child”
SYNONYMS
BROADER
2
Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb.
“comb your hair before dinner”
“comb the wool”
SYNONYMS
BROADER
NARROWER
RELATED
3
Straighten with a comb.
“comb your hair”
BROADER
NARROWER
RELATED
NOUN · 5 SENSES
1
The act of drawing a comb through hair.
“his hair needed a comb”
SYNONYMS
BROADER
NARROWER
2
The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds.
SYNONYMS
BROADER
3
A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair.
BROADER
NARROWER
4
Any of several tools for straightening fibers.
BROADER
NARROWER
5
Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore.
BROADER