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GAIN

4 letters

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

GAIN 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

GAINS-s 2 GAINING-ing 5 GAINED-ed 3 GAINEST-est 5

Might be on the same board

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

GAINLY 3 GAINFUL 5 GAININGS 11 GAINFULLY 11 GAINFULNESS 11 GAINFULNESSES 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo acquire possession of.
    • Looks like you’ve gained a new friend.
  2. intransitiveTo have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
    • The sick man gains daily.
  3. datedtransitiveTo come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
    • to gain a battle; to gain a case at law
  4. transitiveTo increase.
  5. intransitiveoftenTo grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
    • to gain ground
    • I’m gaining (on you).
  6. transitiveTo reach.
    • to gain the top of a mountain
  7. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
  8. intransitiveTo put on weight.
    • I’ve been gaining.
  9. ambitransitivedatedTo run fast, often by a specified amount.
    • Don't rely on that clock: it gains.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe act of gaining; acquisition.
    • People are more willing to take a risk to avoid a loss than to make a gain.
  2. countableuncountableThe thing or things gained.
  3. countableuncountableThe factor by which a signal is multiplied.
  4. A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
preposition
  1. obsoleteAgainst.
adjective
  1. dialectalobsoleteStraight, direct; near; short.
    • the gainest way
  2. dialectalobsoleteSuitable; convenient; ready.
  3. dialectalEasy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
  4. dialectalHonest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
adverb
  1. dialectalobsoleteStraightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
  2. dialectalSuitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
  3. dialectalTolerably; fairly.
    • gain quiet