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COAL

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

COAL is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

COALS-s 2 COLE 1 COALING-ing 5 COALED-ed 3
noun
  1. uncountableA black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
    • The coal in this region was prized by ironmasters in centuries past, who mined it in the spots where the drainage methods of the day permitted.
  2. countableA type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
    • Put some coal on the fire.
    • Order some coal from the coalyard.
  3. countableA piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
    • Put some coals on the fire.
  4. countableA glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
    • hot coals
    • glowing coals
    • Just as the campfire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.
  5. countableuncountableCharcoal.
  6. InternetcountableuncountableContent of low quality.
    • I'm so sick of seeing this coal online.
  7. countableslanguncountableBombs emitting black smoke on impact.
  8. countableobsoleteslanguncountableMoney.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships or locomotives).
  2. transitiveTo supply with coal.
    • to coal a steamer
  3. intransitiveTo be converted to charcoal.
  4. transitiveTo burn to charcoal; to char.
  5. transitiveTo mark or delineate with charcoal.
adjective
  1. Black like coal; coal-black.