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GOVERNED

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

GOVERNED 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.

GOVERNED root GOVERN-ed

Word family

GOVERN 3 GOVERNS-s 5 GOVERNING-ing 11

Might be on the same board

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

GOVERNABLE 11 GOVERNANCE 11 GOVERNMENT 11 GOVERNANCES 11 GOVERNMENTS 11 GOVERNABILITY 11 GOVERNABLENESS 11 GOVERNABILITIES 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
    • The old king governed the land wisely.
  2. intransitiveTo exercise political authority; to run a government.
  3. transitiveTo control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
    • Govern yourselves like civilized people.
    • a student who could not govern his impulses
  4. transitiveTo exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
    • Chance governs the outcome of many card games.
  5. intransitiveTo have or exercise a determining influence.
  6. obsoletetransitiveTo handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
  7. transitiveTo control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
    • a valve that governs fuel intake
  8. obsoletetransitiveTo direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
  9. obsoletetransitiveTo look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant).
  10. obsoletetransitiveTo manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device).
  11. transitiveTo require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
noun
  1. The act of governing