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BACKWARD

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

BACKWARD 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

BACKWARDS-s 11

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

BACKWARDLY 11 BACKWARDNESS 11 BACKWARDATION 11 BACKWARDATIONS 11 BACKWARDNESSES 11
adjective
  1. Situated toward or at the rear of something.
    • The silt collects in the backward part of the tank.
  2. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
    • a backward tilt of the head
  3. Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
    • The occasional apparent backward movement of planets is evidence that they revolve around the sun.
    • Engage the lock to prevent backward rotation of the wheel.
  4. figurativelyActing or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
    • This is a backward step for the country.
  5. Reversed in order or sequence.
    • This backward writing is hard to read.
  6. figurativelyRetarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
    • The child is backward in his school work.
  7. figurativelyOf a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
    • They were a backward people without any writing.
  8. figurativelySlow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
    • a backward child
  9. figurativelyLacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
    • The party’s ideas and policies are very backward.
  10. figurativelyLate or behindhand.
    • a backward season
  11. oftenReluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
    • She certainly isn’t backward in coming forward!
  12. Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
  13. On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
  14. Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
  15. obsoleteUnwilling; averse; reluctant.
  16. obsoleteAlready past or gone; bygone.
adverb
  1. At, near or towards the rear of something.
    • The passenger turned around and walked backward, towards the tail of the aircraft.
  2. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
    • He tilted his head backward.
    • The grandfather clock toppled backward and crashed to the ground.
    • Her arm was bent backward at an odd angle.
  3. In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
    • In reverse gear the wheel turns backward.
  4. figurativelyOppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
    • This project seems to be going backward.
  5. In a reversed orientation; back to front.
    • He had his cap on backward.
  6. In a reversed order or sequence.
    • A palindrome reads the same backward as forward.
  7. Toward or into the past.
    • As we begin the new millennium, it behoves us to look backward as well as forward.
  8. obsoleteIn the past.
  9. By way of reflection; reflexively.
noun
  1. The state behind or past.
verb
  1. datedtransitiveTo keep back, to delay, to retard.