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CHINES

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

CHINES 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.

CHINES root CHINE-s

Word family

CHINE 2 CHIMB 2 CHIME 2 CHINING 5 CHINED-d 3
noun
  1. The top of a ridge.
  2. The spine of an animal.
  3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  4. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
  5. A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
  6. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  7. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  8. The back of the blade on a scythe.
  9. VancouverA steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
verb
  1. transitiveTo cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  2. transitiveTo chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
  3. obsoleteTo crack, split, fissure, break.
    • The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
    • A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.