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BALKS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

BALKS 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.

BALKS root BALK-s

Word family

BALK 1 BAULK 2 BALKING-ing 5 BALKED-ed 3

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

BALKINGS 11 BALKINGLY 11
noun
  1. An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
  2. The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
  3. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
  4. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
  5. A sudden and obstinate stop.
  6. obsoleteAn omission.
  7. An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
  8. A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
  9. The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
  10. The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
  11. The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
  12. UKdialectalA small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
verb
  1. To be unwilling to do something; to refuse to proceed or do or allow something, either in general or only temporarily.
  2. especiallyTo stop short and refuse to go on or do something (such as jump).
    • The horse balked.
  3. To move fitfully, stopping frequently.
  4. To leave or make a balk or balks (ridges) in; to leave a ridge in by leaving partly unploughed.
  5. To stop, check, block (by or as if by an obstacle); to hinder, impede, thwart.
  6. obsoletepossiblyTo leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
  7. obsoletepossiblyTo pass over or by (either by chance or intentionally); to avoid in passing.
  8. obsoletepossiblyTo omit, miss, or overlook by chance, error, or inadvertance.
  9. obsoletepossiblyTo miss intentionally; to avoid, ignore, or shun.
  10. obsoletepossiblyTo refuse (something).
  11. obsoletepossiblyTo let (something) slip; to fail to use or seize or keep (something).
  12. To disappoint, frustrate, or check.
    • to balk expectation
  13. obsoletepossiblyTo quibble or bandy words with; engage in opposing, contradicting, or arguing with.
  14. intransitiveTo make a balk, a deceptive motion to deceive another player.