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FOUL

4 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

FOUL 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

FOULER-er 3 FOULEST-est 5 FOULE-e 2 FOULS-s 2 FOULING-ing 5 FOULED-ed 3

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

FOULES 3 FOULINGS 11 FOULNESS 11 FOULNESSES 11
adjective
  1. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
    • This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.
    • His foul hands got dirt all over the kitchen.
    • The air was so foul nobody could breathe.
    • A ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles
    • A well is foul with polluted water.
  2. Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
    • The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.
    • His foul language causes many people to believe he is uneducated.
  3. Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
    • He has a foul set of friends.
  4. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
    • This foul food is making me retch.
    • There was a foul smell coming from the toilet.
  5. obsoleteUgly; homely; poor.
  6. Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
    • Some foul weather is brewing.
  7. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
    • Foul play is not suspected.
  8. Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
    • We've got a foul anchor.
    • A rope could get foul while it is being paid out.
  9. (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
  10. Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
    • Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make dirty.
    • to foul the face or hands with mire
    • She's fouled her diaper.
  2. transitiveTo besmirch.
    • He's fouled his reputation.
  3. intransitivetransitiveTo obstruct, block, or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
    • The hair has fouled the drain.
  4. transitiveTo entangle.
    • The kelp has fouled the prop.
  5. transitiveTo make make a play, such as a strong contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage, that is deemed by the referee to have contravened the rules.
    • Smith fouled him hard.
  6. intransitiveTo commit a foul.
    • Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
  7. transitiveTo hit outside of the baselines.
    • Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
  8. intransitiveTo hit a ball outside of the baselines.
    • Jones fouled for strike one.
  9. intransitiveTo become clogged.
    • The drain fouled.
  10. intransitiveTo become entangled.
    • The prop fouled on the kelp.
  11. To come into contact or collide with.
noun
  1. A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
  2. A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
  3. A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
    • Jones hit a foul up over the screen.
  4. A tangle or entanglement.