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DECAY

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

DECAY is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

DECAYS-s 3 DECAYING-ing 11 DECAYED-ed 5

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

DECAYER 5 DECAYERS 11 DECAYABLE 11
noun
  1. uncountableusuallyRot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
    • tooth decay/dental decay—wood-decay fungi—bacterial decay—photochemical decay
  2. uncountableusuallyDeterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
    • civic and moral decay—systemic decay—fall into decay—urban decay—arrested decay—memory decay
  3. uncountableusuallyRadioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.
    • alpha decay—gamma decay—fission decay—decay chain
  4. uncountableusuallyParticle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
  5. uncountableusuallyContinuous decrease of a quantity.
    • exponential decay—decay rate—orbital decay—decay time—decay constant—time decay
  6. obsoleteuncountableusuallyOverthrow, destruction, ruin, death.
  7. uncountableusuallyArray decay.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
    • The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street.
  2. intransitiveTo undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
  3. intransitiveTo undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
  4. intransitiveTo undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
  5. intransitiveTo rot, to go bad.
    • The cat's body decayed rapidly.
  6. intransitivetransitiveTo change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
  7. intransitivetransitiveTo undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
  8. intransitiveLoss of airspeed due to drag.
  9. transitiveTo cause to rot or deteriorate.
    • The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.
  10. intransitiveOf an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.