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BLACKEST

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
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Super Big 11 pts

BLACKEST 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.

BLACKEST root BLACK-est

Word family

BLACK 2 BLACKER-er 5 BLACKS-s 3 BLACKING-ing 11 BLACKED-ed 5
adjective
  1. Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
    • The items around him were black in colour.
  2. Without light.
  3. capitalizedsometimesBelonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
  4. UKUScapitalizedsometimesBelonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  5. historicalDesignated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
    • black drinking fountain; black hospital
  6. Of the spades or clubs suits.
    • I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
  7. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
    • black magic
  8. Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
    • He shot her a black look.
  9. Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
  10. Foul; dirty, soiled.
  11. IrelandinformalOvercrowded.
  12. Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
    • Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
  13. Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
    • The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
  14. Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
    • Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ (“WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX”); ☛ (“BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX”).
  15. Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
  16. GermanRelated to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
    • After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
  17. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
    • 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
    • black operations/black ops; black room; black site
  18. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
  19. IrelandderogatoryProtestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
    • the Black North
    • the Royal Black Institution
  20. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
    • the black knight; black bile
  21. especiallyDark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
    • black birch; black locust; black rhino
  22. SingaporeSinglishSullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
  2. countableuncountableA black dye or pigment.
  3. countableA pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
  4. countableuncountableBlack cloth hung up at funerals.
  5. capitalizedcountableoffensiveoftensometimesA member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  6. informaluncountableBlackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
    • black don't crack
  7. countableThe black ball.
  8. countableThe edge of home plate.
  9. UKcountableA type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
  10. UKinformaluncountableBlackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
    • Pernod and black; snakebite and black; cider and black
  11. countableThe person playing with the black set of pieces.
    • At this point black makes a disastrous move.
  12. countableSomething, or a part of a thing, which is black.
  13. countableobsoleteA stain; a spot.
  14. countableuncountableA dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
  15. UScountableslanguncountableMarijuana.
  16. countableuncountableThe blackened, burned-out area at the centre of a fire.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make black; to blacken.
  2. transitiveTo apply blacking to (something).
  3. UKtransitiveTo boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.