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FILTER

6 letters

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

FILTER 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

FILTERS-s 5 FILTERING-ing 11 FILTERED-ed 11

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

FILTERER 11 FILTERERS 11 FILTERABLE 11 FILTERABILITY 11 FILTERABLENESS 11 FILTERABILITIES 11
noun
  1. A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
  2. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
  3. Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
    • He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.
  4. figurativelySelf-restraint in speech.
    • He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result.
  5. A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
    • The collection of cofinite subsets of ℝ is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
    • If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter.
  6. A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
  7. An appearance-altering digital image effect.
verb
  1. transitiveTo sort, sift, or isolate.
    • This strainer should filter out the large particles.
  2. transitiveTo diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
    • The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
  3. intransitiveTo pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
    • The water filtered through the rock and soil.
  4. intransitiveTo move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
    • The crowd filtered into the theater.
  5. intransitiveTo ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
    • I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.
  6. derogatoryintransitiveslangTo be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
    • Most people get filtered by that episode.