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ESCAPE

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

ESCAPE is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

ESCAPES-s 5 ESCAPING 11 ESCAPED-d 5

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

ESCAPER 5 ESCAPERS 11 ESCAPISM 11 ESCAPABLE 11 ESCAPISMS 11 ESCAPEMENT 11 ESCAPEMENTS 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo get free; to free oneself.
    • The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
    • The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
  2. transitiveTo break out of confinement.
    • The prisoners escaped their cell.
  3. transitiveTo avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
    • He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
    • The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
  4. intransitiveTo avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
    • Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
  5. intransitiveTo avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time.
    • Work was stressful, and I needed to escape.
  6. transitiveTo be forgotten by.
    • I used to know the name of the capital of France, but it escapes me now.
  7. transitiveTo elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
    • The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
    • The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.
  8. transitiveTo cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
    • When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
    • Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
  9. To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
  10. intransitiveTo grow wild, instead of in a cultivated area.
    • You have to be careful planting mint, or it will escape and take over your yard.
  11. transitiveTo express, especially involuntarily.
    • I tried to look disappointed, but a smile escaped me.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
    • The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
  2. countableuncountableLeakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
  3. countableuncountableSomething that has escaped; an escapee.
  4. countableuncountableA holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
  5. countableuncountableescape key
  6. countableuncountableThe text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
    • You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
  7. countableuncountableA successful shot from a snooker position.
  8. countableuncountableA defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
  9. countableobsoleteuncountableThat which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
  10. countableobsoleteuncountableA sally.
  11. countableuncountableAn apophyge.
  12. countableuncountableA cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.