spend: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with S · ends with D
Meaning of spend
verb
- ambitransitive
To pay out (money).
Example: I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
To exhaust, to wear out.
Example: The violence of the waves was spent.
To consume, to use up (time).
Example: My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
Listed forms: spends, spending, spent.
Source: Wiktionary — spend.
noun
- countable, uncountable
Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
Example: I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
- countable, in-plural, uncountable
Expenditures; money or pocket money.
- countable, uncountable
Discharged semen.
- countable, uncountable
Vaginal discharge.
Listed forms: spends.
Source: Wiktionary — spend.
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 spend.
verb
use up a period of time in a specific way
verb
pay out
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is spend in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of spend
S(1) + P(3) + E(1) + N(1) + D(2) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of spend
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from spend
18 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in spend. Showing up to 24, longest first.