Boggle Word Finder
BLACKMAIL
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
18
pts
BLACKMAIL 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.
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noun
- uncountableThe extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.
- broadlyuncountableCompromising material that can be used to extort someone.
- broadlyuncountableA type of roleplay where the submissive shares information that may be exploited by the dominant.
- archaicuncountableA form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
- EnglandhistoricaluncountableBlack rent; rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
verb
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transitiveTo extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
- He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
- KenyaTo speak ill of someone; to defame someone.