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GRATES

6 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

GRATES is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

GRATES root GRATE-s

Word family

GRATE 2 GRATING 5 GRATED-d 3

Might be on the same board

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

GRATEFUL 11 GRATINGS 11 GRATINGLY 11 GRATEFULLY 11 GRATEFULNESS 11 GRATEFULNESSES 11
noun
  1. A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
    • The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
  2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
  3. historicalA grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
verb
  1. transitiveTo furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
    • to grate a window
  2. transitiveTo shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
    • I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
  3. intransitiveTo make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
    • Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
    • The chalk grated against the board.
  4. broadlyintransitiveTo get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
    • She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
  5. broadlytransitiveTo annoy.
adjective
  1. obsoleteServing to gratify; agreeable.
  2. obsoleteObsolete spelling of great.