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BUTTERFLY

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

BUTTERFLY 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.

Word family

BUTTERFLIES 11 BUTTERFLYING-ing 11 BUTTERFLIED 11
noun
  1. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
  2. attributiveA use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
    • butterfly tape; butterfly bandage; butterfly strips
  3. The butterfly stroke.
  4. Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
  5. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of butterflies in one’s stomach (“A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach”).
    • I get terrible butterflies before an exam.
  6. archaicSomeone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
  7. A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
  8. A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
    • One potential butterfly could be JFK having another son the year after the POD instead of a daughter.
  9. A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
  10. A person who changes partners frequently.
  11. A safety link or detaching hook above the cage attached to the winding rope to prevent the cage from being overwound.
  12. PhilippinePhilippinesderogatoryoftenparty switcher; turncoat.
verb
  1. transitiveTo cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
    • butterflied shrimp
    • Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
  2. transitiveTo cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
  3. transitiveTo cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
    • Pearl Harbor not happening would've butterflied Taylor Swift.