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LAY

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
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Super Big too short
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LAY 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

LAYS-s 1 LAYING-ing 3 LAID 1 LAYED-ed 2

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LAYINGS 5
verb
  1. transitiveTo place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
    • to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave
    • A shower of rain lays the dust.
  2. archaictransitiveTo cause to subside or abate.
  3. transitiveTo compel a supernatural entity to cease haunting a place, often by ritual or prayer; to exorcise or banish (a spirit or ghost).
  4. transitiveTo prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
  5. transitiveTo install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
    • lay brick; lay flooring
  6. transitiveTo produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
    • The hen laid an egg.
    • Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?
  7. transitiveTo bet (that something is or is not the case).
    • I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.
  8. transitiveTo deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
  9. slangtransitiveTo have sex with.
    • to get laid
  10. transitiveTo state; to allege.
    • to lay the venue
  11. transitiveTo point; to aim.
    • to lay a gun
  12. transitiveTo put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
    • to lay a cable or rope
  13. transitiveTo place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
  14. transitiveTo place (new type) properly in the cases.
  15. transitiveTo apply; to put.
    • The news article laid emphasis on the unusually young age of the criminals.
  16. transitiveTo impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
    • to lay a tax on land
  17. transitiveTo impute; to charge; to allege.
  18. transitiveTo present or offer.
    • to lay an indictment in a particular county
    • I have laid the facts of the matter before you.
  19. intransitiveTo produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
  20. intransitiveTo subside or abate.
  21. intransitiveTo take a position; to come or go.
    • to lay forward; to lay aloft
  22. intransitiveproscribedTo lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
    • I found him laying on the floor.
  23. JudaismtransitiveTo don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
noun
  1. countableuncountableArrangement or relationship; layout.
    • the lay of the land
  2. countableuncountableA share of the profits in a business.
    • While the Pequod lay at Nantucket, Peleg put Ishmael down for the three hundredth lay.
  3. countableuncountableThe direction a rope is twisted.
    • Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
  4. colloquialcountableuncountableA casual sexual partner.
    • What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
  5. colloquialcountableuncountableAn act of sexual intercourse.
  6. archaiccountableslanguncountableA place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
  7. countableuncountableThe laying of eggs.
    • The hens are off the lay at present.
  8. countableobsoleteuncountableA layer.
  9. countableobsoleteuncountableA basis or ground.
  10. countableobsoleteuncountableA pursuit or practice; a dodge.
  11. A lake.
  12. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
  13. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
  14. obsoleteA meadow; a lea.
  15. obsoleteA law.
  16. obsoleteAn obligation; a vow.
adjective
  1. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
    • They seemed more lay than clerical.
    • a lay preacher; a lay brother
  2. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
  3. Not trumps.
    • a lay suit
  4. obsoleteNot educated or cultivated; ignorant.