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BLANCHES

8 letters

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

BLANCHES 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.

BLANCHES root BLANCH-es

Word family

BLANCH 3 BLANCHING-ing 11 BLANCHED-ed 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo grow or become white.
    • His cheek blanched with fear.
    • The rose blanches in the sun.
  2. transitiveTo take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
    • to blanch linen
    • Age has blanched his hair.
  3. transitiveTo cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  4. transitiveTo whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
  5. transitiveTo bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
  6. transitiveTo make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
    • to blanch almonds
  7. transitiveTo give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
  8. intransitiveTo cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  9. figurativelytransitiveTo give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
  10. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  11. To cause to turn aside or back.
  12. To use evasion.