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GROUND

6 letters

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

GROUND 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.

Word family

GROUNDS-s 5 GROUNDING-ing 11 GROUNDED-ed 11

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

GROUNDEDLY 11 GROUNDINGS 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
    • Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
  2. uncountableTerrain.
  3. countableuncountableSoil, earth.
    • The worm crawls through the ground.
  4. countableThe bottom of a body of water.
  5. countableuncountableBasis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
  6. countableuncountableReason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
    • You will need to show good grounds for your action.
    • He could not come on grounds of health, or on health grounds.
  7. countableuncountableBackground, context, framework, surroundings.
  8. countablehistoricaluncountableThe area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
  9. broadlycountablefigurativelyuncountableAdvantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
  10. countableuncountableA place suited to a specified activity.
    • a forest traditionally used as a hunting-ground
  11. countableuncountableThe plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
    • crimson flowers on a white ground
  12. countableuncountableA flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
  13. countableuncountableThe net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
  14. countableuncountableA gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
  15. countableuncountableOne of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
    • Grounds are usually put up first and the plastering floated flush with them.
  16. UKcountableA soccer stadium.
    • Manchester United's ground is known as Old Trafford.
  17. countableuncountableAn electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
  18. PhilippinescountableuncountableElectric shock.
  19. countableThe area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
  20. countableuncountableA composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
  21. countableuncountableThe tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
  22. countableuncountableThe pit of a theatre.
  23. IndiacountableobsoleteuncountableSynonym of munny (“land measure”).
verb
  1. UStransitiveTo connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
  2. PhilippinestransitiveTo electrocute.
  3. transitiveTo punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
    • If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
    • Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
    • My kids are currently grounded from television.
  4. transitiveTo forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
    • Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
  5. transitiveTo give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
    • Jim was grounded in maths.
  6. To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
  7. To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
  8. transitiveTo place something on the ground.
  9. intransitiveTo run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
    • The ship grounded on the bar.
  10. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
  11. To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
  12. transitiveTo improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
    • I ground myself with meditation.
  13. transitiveTo complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
adjective
  1. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
    • ground mustard seed
  2. Processed by grinding.
    • lenses of ground glass