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DYKE

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

DYKE 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

DYKES-s 2 DIKE 1 DYKING 3 DYKED-d 2
noun
  1. UKAn earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
  2. ScotlandUKA low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
  3. UKA raised causeway.
  4. UKhistoricalA long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
  5. UKdialectalAny navigable watercourse.
  6. UKdialectalAny watercourse.
  7. UKdialectalAny small body of water.
  8. UKA body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
  9. AustraliaUKslangA place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
  10. UKAn embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
  11. UKobsoleteAny hollow dug into the ground.
  12. UKhistoricalA long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
  13. UKA wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
  14. UKdialectalAny fence or hedge.
  15. UKfigurativelyAny impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
  16. UKA beaver's dam.
  17. UKdialectalA jetty; a pier.
  18. UKdialectalA fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
  19. UKderogatoryoffensiveslangusuallyvulgarA lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
  20. UKbroadlyderogatoryoffensiveslangusuallyvulgarA non-heterosexual woman.
  21. UKderogatoryoffensiveslangusuallyvulgarA masculine woman.
verb
  1. UKintransitivetransitiveTo dig, particularly to create a ditch.
  2. UKtransitiveTo surround with a ditch, to entrench.
  3. ScotlandUKtransitiveTo surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
  4. UKintransitivetransitiveTo raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
  5. UKtransitiveTo scour a watercourse.
  6. UKtransitiveTo steep [fibers] within a watercourse.