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HOES

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

HOES 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.

HOES root HOE-s

Word family

HOE 1 HOEING-ing 3 HOED-d 1 HOUGH 2
noun
  1. An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
    • For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.
  2. Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
    • The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]
  3. alternativederogatoryslangAlternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
  4. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
  5. OrkneyShetlandThe horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
verb
  1. ambitransitiveTo cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
    • to hoe the earth in a garden
    • Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
    • I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
  2. transitiveTo clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
    • to hoe corn
  3. USalternativeslangAlternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).