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AXE

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
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Super Big too short
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AXE is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

AXES-s 1 AXING 2 AXED-d 1
noun
  1. A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
  2. An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
  3. informalA dismissal or rejection.
    • His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
  4. figurativelyA drastic reduction or cutback.
    • the Beeching Axe
    • The tractor plant is slated for the axe.
  5. slangA gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
  6. A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
    • A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.
  7. archaicThe axle of a wheel.
verb
  1. transitiveTo fell or chop with an axe.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
    • The government announced its plans to axe public spending.
    • The broadcaster axed the series because far fewer people than expected watched it.
    • He got axed in the last round of firings.
  3. To furnish with an axle.
  4. alternativedialectalobsoleteAlternative form of ask.