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HOVERED

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

HOVERED is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

HOVERED root HOVER-ed

Word family

HOVER 2 HOVERS-s 3 HOVERING-ing 11

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

HOVERER 5 HOVERERS 11 HOVERINGLY 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
  2. transitiveOf a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
  3. obsoletetransitiveOf a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
  4. intransitiveTo remain stationary or float in the air.
    • The hummingbird hovered by the plant.
  5. figurativelyintransitiveSometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
    • His pen hovered above the paper.
    • The strange man hovered outside the gents’ toilet.
    • The visitors were hovering at the door, seemingly unwilling to enter.
    • Some helicopter parents weren’t so much dropping off their kids as hovering over them until the event started.
  6. figurativelyintransitiveTo be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
    • Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.
  7. intransitiveChiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
    • A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.
  8. intransitiveTo travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun
  1. An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
  2. A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
  3. figurativelyAn act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
  4. A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.