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FISH

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

FISH 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

FISHES-es 3 FISHING-ing 5 FISHED-ed 3

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FISHFUL 5 FISHINGS 11
noun
  1. countableA typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
    • Salmon is a fish.
    • The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.
    • Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.
    • We have many fish in our aquarium.
  2. countableuncountableAny vertebrate, including tetrapods.
  3. archaicbroadlycountableuncountableAny animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
  4. archaicbroadlycountableuncountableNow used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
  5. NewfoundlandcountableuncountableCod; codfish.
  6. uncountableThe flesh of the fish used as food.
    • The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
    • Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.
  7. countableuncountableAn aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
  8. uncountableA card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
  9. countableslangAn easy victim for swindling.
  10. countableslangA bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
  11. countableA makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
  12. countableuncountableA purchase used to fish the anchor.
  13. countableslangA torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
  14. countableuncountableThe thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
  15. derogatorypositiveslangsometimesuncountableA (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
  16. countableslanguncountableA new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
  17. JamaicacountablederogatoryoffensiveuncountableA male homosexual; a gay man.
  18. countableuncountableA drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
  19. countablerareuncountableA spaceship.
  20. A period of time spent fishing.
    • The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
  21. An instance of seeking something.
    • Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
  22. obsoleteA counter, used in various games.
verb
  1. intransitivetransitiveTo hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
    • We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
    • She went to the river to fish for trout.
  2. transitiveTo search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
    • They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
  3. transitiveTo use as bait when fishing.
  4. intransitiveTo (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
    • Why are you fishing through my things?
    • He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.
  5. intransitiveTo talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
    • The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.
    • The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.
  6. intransitiveOf a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
  7. transitiveTo repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
  8. transitiveTo hoist the flukes of.
  9. transitiveTo draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.