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FORK

4 letters

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

FORK 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

FORKS-s 2 FORKING-ing 5 FORKED-ed 3

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

FORKFUL 5 FORKEDLY 11 FORKFULS 11
noun
  1. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
  2. Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
  3. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
  4. A tuning fork.
  5. physicalAn intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
  6. figurativelyA decision point.
  7. A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
  8. metonymicallyOne of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
    • a thunderbolt with three forks
    • this fork of the river dries up during droughts
  9. figurativelyA point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
  10. figurativelymetonymicallyEither of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
  11. figurativelymetonymicallyAny of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
  12. figurativelyThe launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
  13. figurativelyAny of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
    • LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.
  14. figurativelyThe splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
    • A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).
  15. figurativelyAny of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
  16. figurativelyA split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
  17. The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
  18. UKvulgarThe crotch.
  19. colloquialA forklift.
    • Are you qualified to drive a fork?
  20. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
    • Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!
  21. In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
    • The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.
  22. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
  23. A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
    • resource fork
  24. obsoleteA gallows.
  25. The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
verb
  1. ambitransitiveTo divide into two or more branches or copies.
    • A road, a tree, or a stream forks.
  2. ambitransitiveTo spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
  3. ambitransitiveTo launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
  4. ambitransitivetransitiveTo create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
  5. transitiveTo move with a fork (as hay or food).
  6. transitiveTo apply a fork to.
    • forking the soil
  7. UKtransitiveTo kick someone in the crotch.
  8. intransitiveTo shoot into blades, as corn does.
  9. To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
  10. transitiveTo bale a shaft dry.