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EARNING

7 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

EARNING is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

EARNING root EARN-ing

Word family

EARN 1 EARNS-s 2 EARNED-ed 3 EARNEST-est 5

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

EARNINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
    • You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well.
    • With their hard work and dedication, they earned respect and a seat at the table.
  2. transitiveTo receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).
    • He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO. My bank account is only earning one percent interest.
    • She earns more than forty thousand dollars a year in passive income from her parents' investments — that's what she gets before she even gets out of bed or lifts a finger.
  3. intransitiveTo receive payment for work.
    • Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent.
  4. transitiveTo cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
    • My CD earns me six percent!
    • In that era, all their long, hard, dangerous labor in the mines barely earned them even enough to eat!
  5. transitiveTo achieve by being worthy of.
    • to earn a spot in the top 20
  6. UKarchaicdialectaltransitiveTo curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
  7. UKdialectalintransitiveobsoleteOf milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
  8. UKdialectalobsoletetransitiveTo strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
  9. UKdialectalintransitiveobsoleteTo grieve.
noun
  1. UKalternativedialectalAlternative form of erne