Urchin

What it means

1. (noun) A mischievous child.
2. (noun) A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
3. (noun) A sea urchin.
4. (noun) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
5. (noun) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
6. (noun) A hedgehog.
7. (noun) A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

Letter analysis

• Urchin contains 6 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
• It uses 6 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 2.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 11.

Sub-words

• churn
• incur
• runic
• chin
• inch
• rich
• ruin
• uric
• chi
• cur
• inc
• run
• urn

Related words

Other 6-letter words

• abacus
• abased
• abases
• abated
• abates
• abbess
• abbeys
• abbots
• abbrev
• abduct
• abhors
• abided
• abides
• abject
• abjure
• ablaze
• ablest
• abloom

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Words starting with URC

• urchins

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Words ending with HIN

• chin
• dauphin
• dolphin
• lecithin
• shin
• thin
• within

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