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BAILS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

BAILS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

BAILS root BAIL-s

Word family

BAIL 1 BAILING-ing 5 BAILED-ed 3
noun
  1. countableuncountableSecurity, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
    • He was granted bail for £20000.
  2. UKcountableuncountableRelease from imprisonment on payment of such money.
  3. UKcountableuncountableThe person providing such payment.
  4. countableuncountableA bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
  5. countableuncountableA person who bails water out of a boat.
  6. countableobsoleteuncountableCustody; keeping.
  7. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
  8. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
  9. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
  10. AustraliaA frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  11. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
  12. One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  13. Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
verb
  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
    • to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier
  4. intransitivetransitiveTo remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
    • to bail water out of a boat
  5. transitiveTo remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
    • to bail a boat
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.
  7. intransitiveslangTo leave or exit abruptly.
    • With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail.
  8. informalintransitiveTo fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
  9. To secure the head of a cow during milking.
  10. rareTo confine.
  11. AustraliaTo secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  12. AustraliausuallyTo keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.