spring: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 9 letter points · starts with S · ends with G
Meaning of spring
verb
- intransitive
To move or burst forth.
Example: The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
- intransitive
To move or burst forth. To appear.
- intransitive
To move or burst forth. To grow, to sprout.
- UK, dialectal, intransitive
To move or burst forth. To grow, to sprout. To mature.
Listed forms: springs, springing, sprang, sprung, glossary.
Source: Wiktionary — spring.
noun
- countable
An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- countable, uncountable
The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
Example: Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
- countable, uncountable
The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life. The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
Example: Chinese New Year always occurs in January or February but is called the "Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.
- countable, uncountable
The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life. The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
Example: I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
Listed forms: springs.
Source: Wiktionary — spring.
verb
- intransitive
To spend the springtime somewhere.
Listed forms: springs, springing, springed.
Source: Wiktionary — spring.
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 spring.
noun
the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
noun
a natural flow of ground water
- fountain
- outflow
- outpouring
- natural spring
noun
the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
noun
a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is spring in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of spring
S(1) + P(3) + R(1) + I(1) + N(1) + G(2) = 9 points.
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Anagrams of spring
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 spring
46 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in spring. Showing up to 24, longest first.