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CANDIDATE

9 letters

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

CANDIDATE 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

CANDIDATES-s 11

Might be on the same board

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

CANDID 3 CANDIDS 5 CANDIDAL 11 CANDIDER 11 CANDIDLY 11 CANDIDNESS 11 CANDIDNESSES 11
noun
  1. A person who seeks to be elected or appointed to a position or privilege.
    • Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election.
    • All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
  2. figurativelyA person who is thought likely or worthy to gain a position or privilege.
  3. A participant in an examination.
    • Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam.
  4. Someone or something likely or suited to undergo or be chosen for a purpose.
    • After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
  5. A student taking a degree who has finished the coursework but has other remaining requirements such as a dissertation.
    • a Ph.D. candidate
  6. The recipient of certain academic degrees, now mainly awarded in Scandinavia.
  7. A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
verb
  1. uncommonTo stand as a candidate for an office, typically for a religious one.
  2. nonstandarduncommonTo make or name (something) as a candidate (to be chosen or deemed suitable for a purpose).
  3. figurativelyobsoleteraretransitiveuncommonTo make white; to whitewash.