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BOX

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

BOX is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

BOXES-es 2 BOXEN-en 2 BOXING-ing 3 BOXED-ed 2

Might be on the same board

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

BOXFUL 3 BOXFULS 5 BOXINGS 5
noun
  1. A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
  2. A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
    • a box of books
  3. A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
  4. A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
    • post box post office box
  5. A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
  6. A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
  7. The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
  8. A small rectangular shelter.
    • sentry-box
  9. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
  10. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of gearbox.
  11. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of stashbox.
  12. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of signal box.
  13. figurativelyA predicament or trap.
    • I’m really in a box now.
  14. slangA prison cell.
  15. slangA cell used for solitary confinement.
  16. euphemisticA coffin.
  17. slangThe television.
  18. slangvulgarThe vagina.
  19. slangA computer, or the case in which it is housed.
    • a UNIX box
  20. slangA gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
  21. A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
  22. Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
  23. A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
  24. A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
  25. datedA small country house.
  26. colloquialA stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
  27. IrelandUKabbreviationcolloquialShort for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
  28. A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
    • Place a tick in the box.
    • This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.
  29. The rectangle in which the batter stands.
  30. One of two specific regions in a promoter.
  31. A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
  32. abbreviationellipsisinformalEllipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
  33. The penalty area.
  34. A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
  35. An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
  36. broadlyA rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
  37. Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
  38. The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
  39. slangA musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
  40. AustraliaAn evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
  41. AustraliaVarious species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
  42. A blow with the fist.
  43. datedA Mediterranean food fish of the genus Boops, which is a variety of sea bream; a bogue or oxeye.
verb
  1. transitiveTo place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
  2. transitiveUsually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
  3. transitiveTo mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
  4. transitiveTo make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
  5. transitiveTo enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
  6. transitiveTo furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
  7. transitiveTo enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
  8. transitiveTo place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
  9. To enter the pit.
  10. transitiveTo strike with the fists; to punch.
    • to box someone’s ears
    • Leave this place before I box you!
  11. transitiveTo fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
  12. intransitivestativeTo participate in boxing; to be a boxer.