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HEM

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

HEM is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

HEMS-s 1 HEMMING-ming 5 HEMMED-med 3
interjection
  1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.
noun
  1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
  2. The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
  3. A rim or margin of something.
  4. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
verb
  1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
  2. intransitiveTo make a hem.
  3. transitiveTo put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
  4. transitiveTo shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
    • A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.
pronoun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of 'em.