noun
- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
- A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
- A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
- A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
- A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
- The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
verb
- To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
- To project in a dispersive manner.
- To project many small items dispersively.
- To urinate in order to mark territory.
- To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
Pronunciation
About this word
Spray is a 2-meaning word in English. Medium-length words often have several interesting anagrams.
This page shows the definition of spray along with every other word you can make from its letters. Click the link above to see all anagrams and shorter words formed from the same set of letters.
How to use this page
Every word in our dictionary has its own page like this one. Here you can:
- Read the definition — see what the word means, how it is used in context, and which part of speech it belongs to.
- Hear the pronunciation — when an audio recording is available, press the play button to hear the word spoken aloud.
- Browse synonyms — see related words that share a similar meaning, useful for expanding your vocabulary.
- Find anagrams — click "Other words from spray's letters" to see every word you can spell using the same letters.
Words in word games
If you are playing a word game, knowing whether a word is valid is essential. Spray appears in our 370,000-word English dictionary, which includes most words accepted in Scrabble and Words With Friends. However, always check the official word list for the specific game you are playing, as different games use different dictionaries.
Scrabble
In Scrabble, the valid word lists are the Official Tournament and Club Word List (OTCWL/NWL) for North America and the Collins Scrabble Words (CSW) for international play. Our dictionary covers most words in both lists, but some proper nouns, abbreviations, and offensive terms may differ.
Wordle
Wordle uses its own curated word list that is smaller than the full Scrabble dictionary. If Spray appears here, it may or may not be a valid Wordle answer — but it is a real English word regardless.
Try it interactively
Open Spray in the interactive unscrambler →
More word resources
Explore our guides for more word game help:
Or see all our guides on the blog index.