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GAPS

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

GAPS 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.

GAPS root GAP-s

Word family

GAP 1 GAPPING-ping 5 GAPPED-ped 3
noun
  1. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
    • He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
  2. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
    • We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
  3. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
    • There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
  4. A vacant space or time.
    • I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
  5. A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
    • I'm taking a gap.
    • You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
  6. A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
    • Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.
    • Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
    • She has a gap in her teeth.
  7. A mountain or hill pass.
    • The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
  8. A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
    • At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
  9. The regions between the outfielders.
    • Jones doubled through the gap.
  10. AustraliaThe shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
  11. AustralialiteraryusuallyThe disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
  12. An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
  13. euphemisticslangThe vagina.
  14. alternativeAlternative form of gup (“elected head of a gewog in Bhutan”).
verb
  1. transitiveTo notch, as a sword or knife.
  2. transitiveTo make an opening in; to breach.
  3. transitiveTo check the size of a gap.
    • I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
  4. especiallyintransitiveslangtransitiveTo surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
  5. slangTo leave suddenly.
  6. intransitiveTo fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
  7. USdatedintransitiveslangtransitiveTo stare or gape.