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CASTLE

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

CASTLE is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

CASTLES-s 5 CASTLING 11 CASTLED-d 5
noun
  1. A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
  2. An instance of castling.
  3. informalA rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
  4. A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
  5. obsoleteA close helmet.
  6. datedAny strong, imposing, and stately palace or mansion.
  7. datedA small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
  8. colloquialThe wicket.
verb
  1. transitiveTo house or keep in a castle.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo protect or separate in a similar way.
  3. obsoleteTo make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
  4. intransitiveusuallyTo move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
  5. intransitiveusuallyTo create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
  6. To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.