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GEL

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

GEL is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

GELS-s 1 GELLING-ling 5 GELLED-led 3
noun
  1. countableuncountableA semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
  2. countableuncountableAny gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
  3. countableuncountableA film of flexible transparent plastic (such as acetate, celluloid, or cellophane) suitable for making superimpositions or diapositives (image to overlay on other images, especially for overhead projectors); a digital virtual equivalent of this.
  4. UKslangA girl.
verb
  1. transitiveTo apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
  2. intransitiveTo become a gel: to set up.
  3. intransitiveTo develop a rapport.
    • He was a nice guy, and I got on OK with his friends, but the two of us never really gelled.
  4. figurativelyintransitiveTo come together to form something; to cohere.
    • We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.