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FINE

4 letters

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

FINE 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

FINER-r 2 FINEST-st 3 FINES-s 2 FINING 3 FINED-d 2

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

FINELY 3 FININGS 5 FINENESS 11 FINENESSES 11
adjective
  1. Of superior quality.
    • The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.
    • Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.
  2. ironicImpressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
    • You're a fine one to talk about laziness.
    • Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into.
  3. informalBeing acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory; having one's well-being be no cause for concern.
    • How are you today? – Fine.
    • Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess.
    • It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three.
    • Don't worry about us; the storm knocked the power out, but we're all fine.
  4. informalGood-looking, attractive.
    • That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation.
  5. Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
  6. obsoleteShowy; overdecorated.
  7. Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
  8. An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
    • Do you want to talk about what happened? – [sharply, with annoyance or discomfort] I'm fine!
  9. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
    • The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.
  10. Sunny and not raining.
  11. Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
    • Grind it into a fine powder.
    • When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
  12. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
    • The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
  13. Made of slender or thin filaments.
    • They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
  14. Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
    • Coins nine tenths fine.
  15. Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
    • […]to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four[…]
  16. obsoleteSubtle; thin; tenuous.
adverb
  1. Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
    • Everything worked out fine.
  2. colloquialdateddialectalFinely; elegantly; delicately.
  3. In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
interjection
  1. Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
  2. Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.
noun
  1. Fine champagne; French brandy.
  2. Something that is fine; fine particles.
    • They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
  3. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
    • The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
  4. obsoleteMoney paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.
  5. A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
  6. The end of a musical composition.
  7. The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
  8. obsoleteEnd; conclusion; termination; extinction.
  9. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
  10. UKA sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
    • to fine gold
  2. intransitiveTo become finer, purer, or cleaner.
  3. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
  4. To change by fine gradations.
    • to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
  5. transitiveTo clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
  6. datedintransitiveTo become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
  7. transitiveTo issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
    • She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
  8. intransitiveTo pay a fine.
  9. intransitiveobsoleteTo finish; to cease.
  10. obsoletetransitiveTo cause to cease; to stop.