snake

any of numerous limbless scaled reptiles suborder Serpentes synonym Ophidia with a long tapering body and with salivary glands often modified to produce venom which injected through grooved or tubular fangs

The first known use: before the 12th century

Word Structure

5 Letters, 1 Syllable	snake

4 Phonemes	s n A k

onset, rime	sn ake

Morpheme	snake

Sentence Examples

I thought she was my friend, but she turned out to be a snake in the grass.

The road snakes through the mountains.

Cables snaked across the floor.

Technicians snaked cables through the set.

He snaked his way through the crowd.

Related Words

Sound the same but are spelled differently.

serpent

vermin

Collocations

The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.

snake	snake oil	snake pit
coral snake	grass snake	snake eyes
garter snake	hognose snake	snake charmer

Neighborhood

Rhymes

ache	bake	break
cake	lake	make
shake	steak	take

Onset Friends

snow

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