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CAP

3 letters

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

CAP 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

CAPS-s 1 CAPPING-ping 5 CAPPED-ped 3

Might be on the same board

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

CAPFUL 3 CAPFULS 5 CAPPINGS 11
noun
  1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
    • The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
  2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
  3. An academic mortarboard.
  4. A protective cover or seal.
    • He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
  5. A crown for covering a tooth.
    • He had golden caps on his teeth.
  6. The summit of a mountain, etc.
    • There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
  7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
    • We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
  8. The top part of a mushroom.
  9. A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
    • Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
  10. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
    • He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
  11. slangA bullet used to shoot someone.
  12. slangA lie or exaggeration.
    • no cap
    • that’s cap
  13. A place on a national team; an international appearance.
    • Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
  14. obsoleteThe top, or uppermost part; the chief.
  15. obsoleteA respectful uncovering of the head.
  16. The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
  17. The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
    • the cap of a column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
  18. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
  19. A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
  20. A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
  21. A large size of writing paper.
    • flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
  22. AppalachiaPopcorn.
  23. Capitalization.
  24. informalA capital letter.
  25. A capacitor.
    • parasitic caps
    • I had to replace the caps in that thing to get it to work again.
  26. abbreviationclippingcolloquialClipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.
    • Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
  27. slangA capsule of a drug.
  28. colloquialA capitalist.
  29. A capillary.
  30. A caption.
  31. informalA cappuccino.
  32. obsoleteA wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
verb
  1. transitiveTo cover or seal with a cap.
  2. transitiveTo award a cap as a mark of distinction.
  3. transitiveTo lie over or on top of something.
  4. transitiveTo surpass or outdo.
  5. transitiveTo set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
    • to cap wages
  6. figurativelytransitiveTo conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end.
    • That really capped my day.
  7. transitiveTo select a player to play for a specified side.
  8. slangtransitiveTo shoot (someone) with a firearm.
    • If he don’t get outta my hood, I’m gonna cap his ass.
    • In a school shooting, where some kid caps a bunch of other kids, where did he get the weapon? From a family member, probably their gun cabinet.
  9. intransitiveslangTo lie; to tell a lie.
  10. transitiveTo select to play for the national team.
    • Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
  11. obsoletetransitiveTo salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
  12. To deprive of a cap.
  13. informaltransitiveTo convert text to uppercase.
  14. transitiveTo take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
  15. transitiveTo capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
  16. intransitivetransitiveTo capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.