seed: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 5 letter points · starts with S · ends with D
Meaning of seed
noun
- countable
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- countable
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- countable
Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs. Any small seed-like fruit.
Example: If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
- collective, uncountable
An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
Example: The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
Listed forms: seeds, sede.
Source: Wiktionary — seed.
verb
- transitive
To plant or sow an area with seeds.
Example: I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- reflexive
To shed seeds (refers to plants)
Example: These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
- transitive
To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- transitive
To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
Example: A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
Listed forms: seeds, seeding, seeded, sede.
Source: Wiktionary — seed.
verb
- dialectal, form-of, participle, past
simple past and past participle of see
Base or related entry: see.
Source: Wiktionary — seed.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for seed.
noun
one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- seeded player
noun
anything that provides inspiration for later work
noun
the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
verb
place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is seed in our word lists?
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of seed
S(1) + E(1) + E(1) + D(2) = 5 points.
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Anagrams of seed
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from seed
5 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in seed. Showing up to 24, longest first.