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FLAKE

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

FLAKE is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

FLAKES-s 3 FLAKING 5 FLAKED-d 3
noun
  1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
    • There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
    • flakes of dandruff
  2. A scale of a fish or similar animal
  3. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  4. informalA person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
    • She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
  5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
  6. A flat turn or tier of rope.
  7. USslangA corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
  8. A wire rack for drying fish.
  9. UKuncountableDogfish.
  10. AustraliauncountableThe meat of the gummy shark.
  11. UKdialectalA paling; a hurdle.
  12. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  13. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  14. alternativeAlternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
verb
  1. To break or chip off in a flake.
    • The paint flaked off after only a year.
  2. colloquialTo prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
    • He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
  3. To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
    • The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
  4. IrelandslangTo hit (another person).
  5. USslangTo plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
  6. To lay out on a flake for drying.
    • flake a fish