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FIN

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

FIN is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

FINS-s 1 FINNING-ning 5 FINNED-ned 3
noun
  1. One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
    • The fish's fins minimize water flow.
  2. A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
    • a dolphin's fin
  3. A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
    • The fin stabilises the plane in flight.
  4. A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
  5. A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
  6. A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
  7. A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
    • The divers wore fins to swim faster.
  8. An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
  9. A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
  10. The conning tower of a submarine.
  11. UKobsoleteslangA person's hand.
  12. UKslanga five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
  13. USdatedslangA five-dollar bill; the sum of five dollars.
  14. archaic"The end".
  15. obsoleteDenotes the end of the road.
  16. informaluncountablefinasteride
verb
  1. transitiveTo cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
  2. intransitive(Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
  3. intransitiveTo swim in the manner of a fish.
    • A neutrally buoyant diver does not need to fin to maintain depth.
  4. transitiveTo provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.