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FAIL

4 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

FAIL 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

FAILS-s 2 FAILING-ing 5 FAILED-ed 3 FEAL 1

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

FAILINGS 11 FAILINGLY 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo be unsuccessful.
    • Throughout my life, I have always failed.
  2. transitiveNot to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
    • The truck failed to start.
  3. transitiveTo neglect.
    • The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.
  4. intransitiveOf a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
    • After running five minutes, the engine failed.
  5. transitiveTo be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
    • I've failed my parents many times growing up.
  6. ambitransitiveTo receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
    • I failed English last year.
  7. transitiveTo give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
    • The professor failed me because I did not complete any of the course assignments.
  8. obsoletetransitiveTo miss attaining; to lose.
  9. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
    • The crops failed last year.
  10. archaicTo be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
  11. archaicTo fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
  12. archaicTo deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
    • A sick man fails.
  13. obsoleteTo perish; to die; used of a person.
  14. obsoleteTo err in judgment; to be mistaken.
  15. intransitiveTo become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
noun
  1. countableuncountableA failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
  2. countableuncountableA failing grade in an academic examination.
  3. UScountableslanguncountableA failure (something incapable of success).
  4. slanguncountablePoor quality; substandard workmanship.
    • The project was full of fail.
  5. A piece of turf cut from grassland.
adjective
  1. USslangUnsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.