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FORMATIVE

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

FORMATIVE is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

adjective
  1. Capable of forming something.
  2. Capable of producing new tissue.
  3. Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
  4. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
    • My formative years were spent in an inner city.
  5. Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
noun
  1. A thing which causes formation to occur.
  2. A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
  3. Synonym of derivative (“a word that derives from another one”).