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BUD

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

BUD 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

BUDS-s 1 BUDDING-ding 5 BUDDED-ded 3

Might be on the same board

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

BUDDINGS 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
    • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
  2. countablefigurativelyuncountableSomething that has begun to develop.
    • breast buds
  3. countableuncountableA small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
    • In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
  4. AustraliaCanadaUScountableslanguncountableusuallyCannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
    • You got any buds?
  5. AustraliaCanadaUSslanguncountableusuallyMarijuana.
    • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
  6. countableuncountableA weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
  7. countabledateduncountableA pretty young girl.
  8. CanadaUSinformalBuddy, friend.
    • I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
  9. CanadainformalSynonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
  10. informalrareBrother.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo form buds.
    • The trees are finally starting to bud.
  2. intransitiveTo reproduce by splitting off buds.
    • Yeast reproduces by budding.
  3. intransitiveTo begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
    • Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
  4. intransitiveTo be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
  5. transitiveTo put forth as a bud.
  6. transitiveTo graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.