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DELAY

5 letters

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

DELAY 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

DELAYS-s 3 DELAYING-ing 11 DELAYED-ed 5

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

DELAYER 5 DELAYERS 11 DELAYABLE 11 DELAYERING 11 DELAYINGLY 11 DELAYERINGS 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
    • the delay before the echo of a sound
    • Two twenty minutes' delays.
  2. countableuncountableAn audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
  3. countableuncountableSynonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
  4. countableuncountableAn amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
verb
  1. transitiveTo put off until a later time; to defer.
  2. transitiveTo retard; to temporarily stop, detain, or hinder.
    • The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
  3. intransitiveTo wait, hesitate, tarry.
    • Don't delay; this special offer ends at midnight!
  4. obsoletetransitiveTo allay; to temper.
  5. obsoleteTo dilute, temper.
  6. obsoleteTo assuage, quench, allay.