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ACADEMIC

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

ACADEMIC is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

ACADEMICS-s 11

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

ACADEME 5 ACADEMES 11 ACADEMISM 11 ACADEMICAL 11 ACADEMISMS 11 ACADEMICALS 11 ACADEMICALLY 11 ACADEMICALISM 11 ACADEMICALISMS 11
adjective
  1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
    • the academic sect or philosophy
  2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
  3. In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
  4. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
    • I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
    • the distinction is academic
    • an academic question
  5. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
    • I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.
  6. Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
  7. Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
  8. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
noun
  1. capitalizedusuallyA follower of Plato, a Platonist.
  2. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
  3. A member of the Academy; an academician.
  4. archaicA student in a college.
  5. pluralAcademic dress; academicals.
  6. pluralAcademic studies.