tongue: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 7 letter points · starts with T · ends with E
Meaning of tongue
noun
- countable, uncountable
The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- countable, uncountable
Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
Example: cold tongue with mustard
- countable, uncountable
Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- countable, metonymically, uncountable
A language.
Example: He was speaking in his native tongue.
Listed forms: tongues, tong, tonge, toong, toongue, toung, tounge, toungue.
Source: Wiktionary — tongue.
verb
- ambitransitive
On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
Example: Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.
- transitive
To manipulate with the tongue.
- slang, sometimes, transitive, vulgar
To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
Example: a soil horizon that tongues into clay
Listed forms: tongues, tonguing, tongued, tong, tonge, toong, toongue.
Source: Wiktionary — tongue.
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 tongue.
noun
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
noun
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- natural language
noun
any long thin projection that is transient
noun
a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is tongue in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of tongue
T(1) + O(1) + N(1) + G(2) + U(1) + E(1) = 7 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 tongue
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 tongue
43 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in tongue. Showing up to 24, longest first.