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GHETTOES

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

GHETTOES is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

GHETTOES root GHETTO-es

Word family

GHETTO 3 GHETTOS-s 5 GHETTOING-ing 11 GHETTOED-ed 11
noun
  1. An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
  2. An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
  3. An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
  4. derogatoryfigurativelysometimesAn isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
adjective
  1. Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
  2. informalslangUnseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
    • My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
    • I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
  3. USderogatoryinformaloffensiveoftenCharacteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
  4. Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
verb
  1. transitiveTo confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.