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FORMAL

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

FORMAL is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

adjective
  1. In accordance with established forms.
    • She spoke formal English, without any dialect.
  2. Official.
    • I'd like to make a formal complaint.
  3. Relating to the form or structure of something.
    • Formal linguistics ignores the vocabulary of languages and focuses solely on their grammar.
  4. Relating to formation.
    • The formal stage is a critical part of any child's development.
  5. Ceremonial or traditional.
    • Formal wear must be worn at my wedding!
  6. Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
    • He's always very formal, and I wish he'd relax a bit.
  7. Organized; well-structured and planned.
    • When they became a formal club the rowers built a small boathouse.
  8. especiallyIn accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous.
    • Despite efforts by limnologists and freshwater biologists to create a formal definition of “pond”, there is still no universal distinction between a “pond” and a “lake”.
    • Only formal proofs, which derive theorems logically from their given axioms, are considered satisfactory in modern mathematics.
    • A set of words can be formal cognates only if they can be derived from a common ancestor by regular sound laws.
  9. Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
    • Formal series are defined without any reference to convergence.
noun
  1. countableuncountableAn evening gown.
  2. countableuncountableAn event with a formal dress code.
    • Jenny took Sam to her Year 12 formal.
  3. countableuncountableA formal parameter.
  4. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of formal hall.
  5. uncountableFormalin.
  6. countableuncountableAn acetal formed from formaldehyde.