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FRETS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

FRETS 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.

FRETS root FRET-s

Word family

FRET 1 FRETTING-ting 11 FRETTED-ted 5 FRATE 2

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

FRETFUL 5 FRETFULLY 11 FRETTINGS 11 FRETFULNESS 11 FRETFULNESSES 11
verb
  1. obsoletepoetictransitiveEspecially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
  2. transitiveTo chafe or irritate; to worry.
  3. transitiveTo make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
    • to fret the surface of water
  4. transitiveIn the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
  5. ambitransitiveTo gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
  6. ambitransitiveTo mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
  7. ambitransitiveTo be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
  8. intransitiveTo be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
    • A wristband frets on the edges.
  9. intransitiveTo be anxious, to worry.
  10. intransitiveTo be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
    • Rancour frets in the malignant breast.
  11. intransitiveTo have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
  12. transitiveTo decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
  13. transitiveTo form a pattern on; to variegate.
  14. transitiveTo cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
  15. To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
  16. transitive# To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
    • to fret a guitar
  17. transitiveTo press down the string behind a fret.
noun
  1. Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
  2. Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
    • He keeps his mind in a continual fret.
  3. Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
  4. The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
  5. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
  6. A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
  7. One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
  8. dialectalobsoleteA ferrule, a ring.
  9. A channel, a strait; a fretum.
  10. rareA channel or passage created by the sea.
  11. NorthumbriaA fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.