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BACKLISTS

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

BACKLISTS is a valid 9-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 18 in Super Big Boggle.

BACKLISTS root BACKLIST-s

Word family

BACKLIST 11 BACKLISTING-ing 11 BACKLISTED-ed 11
noun
  1. A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.
  2. attributiveExpected to achieve years of adequate sales while on a backlist, and to be profitable on that basis, even if predicted not to sell in huge numbers when new.
    • The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.
verb
  1. transitiveTo hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
    • I have not heard back from the college yet: I must have been backlisted.
  2. transitiveTo place (a book) on a backlist.