Synonyms & related words for spawn

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of spawn — including engender, breed, brood, beget, procreate, roe. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to spawn

Explore words related to spawn — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include hatched, grunion, hatchery, frogspawn, culch, hatching, unhatched, pullulation. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for spawn

Common synonyms for spawn include engender, breed, brood, beget, procreate, roe — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does spawn come from?

The word spawn breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root spawn-, from Latin expando (“spread out, shed eggs”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.