Unscramble IGNSE: Letters, Definition, and Answer
IGNSE unscrambles to SINGE, a 5-letter verb from Jumble Answers Today: November 13, 2026. No letter repeats.
How to crack IGNSE
SIGN uses four tiles until leftover E will not sit. SING leftover E rhymes with the real answer, which is why it burns time. Put SI at the front, then NGE: SI, NGE. G has to sit in the fourth seat, not after S as in SIGN. SINGE is the only everyday surface-burn verb that clears the rack.
Letter map: IGNSE → SINGE
| Position in SINGE | Letter | Tile in IGNSE | Circled for the caption |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S | 4 | Yes |
| 2 | I | 1 | Yes |
| 3 | N | 3 | — |
| 4 | G | 2 | Yes |
| 5 | E | 5 | — |
What does SINGE mean?
SINGE (verb): to burn the surface of something slightly, without setting it fully alight. Example: “A too-hot towel can singe the neck if a barber rushes the last close of the night.”
Similar: scorch, char, sear, burn. Opposite: dampen, extinguish.
Did you know? Singe comes from Old English sengan, to burn lightly. The same root sits behind German sengen. English kept the surface-burn verb and later used it for singeing poultry before plucking.
Using SINGE in a sentence
Singe means burn the surface only: singe the hair, singe a chicken, a singed eyebrow. Scorch and sear cover similar ground; douse pushes the other way. Keep singe separate from sign as a jumble cousin — sign used four tiles on this rack, and singe needed leftover E after SING. Speakers also singe feathers off a bird before cooking, which is the kitchen sense, not today's clippers cartoon. Singed is the adjective leftover; signature is the look-alike this five-letter scramble never wanted.
How SINGE fits the puzzle
SINGE circles S, I and G. Those three letters become the S that starts CLOSE, an I in CUTTING, and the G in CUTTING — so this five-letter scorch verb quietly stocks both halves of the closing-time idiom.
Its circled letters feed the caption answer, CUTTING IT CLOSE.
Other words in IGNSE
21 shorter dictionary words can be made from a subset of these tiles:
SEGNISENGIEGISENGSGENSGIENGIESGINSSIGNSINESINGENGENSGENGIEGININSSEGSEISENSIN
The rest of this puzzle
- ELTMA → METAL (a typically hard, shiny, heat-conducting material such as iron, copper or gold)
- ANQTUI → QUAINT (attractively old-fashioned, unusual in a charming way)
- CCTOSH → SCOTCH (to put an end to a rumor or plan)
- ETLSIGUINTCOTC → CUTTING IT CLOSE (finishing with almost no time left, and also a barber cutting hair right at closing)
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