Splint

6 lettersnouncommon

Updated June 2026

Definition

A thin sliver or strip of wood, or a rigid support used to immobilise an injured limb.

“The paramedic applied a splint to stabilise the fractured arm.”

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Synonyms

brace support strut sliver strip

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Wordle

Ends in NT, PL cluster and five consonants with one vowel I, tests many consonants in a single guess

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Scrabble

Low tile value, 8pts base, NT ending hooks to board words, a common word that is reliably accepted

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spline sprint

Words you can make from Splint

Shorter words formed from the letters in “splint”.

lints pints slipt spilt split inst intl isnt lins lint lips lisp list lits nils nist nits pins pint pits silt slip slit snip

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