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GRIT

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

GRIT 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.

Word family

GRITS-s 2 GRITTING-ting 11 GRITTED-ted 5
noun
  1. uncountableA collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
    • The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  2. uncountableSand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
  3. uncountableSmall, hard, inedible particles in food.
    • These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
  4. uncountableA measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
    • I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  5. uncountableA hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
  6. idiomaticuncountableStrength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
    • That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
  7. Husked but unground oats.
  8. Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
    • grits and eggs
    • ham and grits
verb
  1. ergativetransitiveTo clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
    • We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
    • He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
    • My teeth gritted as I heard the news.
  2. To cover with grit.
  3. intransitiveobsoleteTo give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.