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BUG

3 letters

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

BUG 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

BUGS-s 1 BUGGING-ging 5 BUGGED-ged 3

Might be on the same board

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

BUGGINGS 11
noun
  1. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
  2. informalproscribedAny motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest.
    • These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
  3. informalproscribedAny insect.
    • A: Eew, what is that thing?! Is that a bug?! B: No, it's a spider. And don't worry: she's not gonna hurt you.
  4. informalproscribedAny of various species of marine (saltwater or freshwater) crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
  5. informalproscribedslangA trilobite.
  6. MaineinformalproscribedA lobster.
  7. UKinformalobsoleteproscribedspecificallyA bedbug.
  8. jargonA problem that needs fixing.
    • The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 3.
  9. A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
    • He's got the flu bug.
  10. informalAn enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
    • I caught the skiing bug while staying in the Alps.
  11. informalA keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
  12. A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
    • We installed a bug in her telephone.
  13. A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
    • He suspected the image was a Web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
  14. A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
    • Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show.
    • The score bug displays the current football score over the ongoing match.
  15. A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
  16. A semi-automated telegraph key.
  17. obsoleteHobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
  18. HIV.
  19. A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
  20. USdatedslangSynonym of oil bug.
  21. USslangAn asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
  22. USbroadlyslangA young apprentice jockey.
  23. Synonym of union bug.
  24. slangA small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
  25. slangA metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
verb
  1. informaltransitiveTo annoy.
    • Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
  2. informalintransitiveTo act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
    • I'm worried about Wallace. He's been buggin' all week.
  3. transitiveTo install an electronic listening device or devices in.
    • We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.
  4. intransitiveTo bulge or protrude.
  5. transitiveTo represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.