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ELECTIVE

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

ELECTIVE is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

adjective
  1. Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
  2. Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
    • After accounting for all of my required courses, there is hardly any room in my schedule for any elective ones.
  3. Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
    • It was very confusing hearing my cancer surgery being classified as "elective surgery". Am I "electing" to live rather than die?
noun
  1. Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
    • I still need to decide which electives to take along with my compulsory courses next semester.