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LEAKS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

LEAKS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

LEAKS root LEAK-s

Word family

LEAK 1 LEAKING-ing 5 LEAKED-ed 3
noun
  1. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
  2. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
    • The leak gained on the ship's pumps.
    • The babies' diapers had big leaks.
  3. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
    • The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.
  4. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
  5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
  6. The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
  7. especiallymildlyslangvulgarAn act of urination.
    • I have to take a leak.
verb
  1. transitiveTo allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
    • The wells are believed to have been leaking oil for decades, long after the operating company ceased to exist.
  2. intransitive(of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
    • The faucet has been leaking since last month.
    • No one realized that propane gas was leaking from a rusty tank in the concession area, slowly filling the unventilated room.
  3. ambitransitiveTo disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
    • Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.
  4. broadlyfigurativelyintransitiveTo pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
  5. broadlyfigurativelytransitiveTo allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
  6. euphemisticslangsometimesTo urinate.
    • I had to leak in the woods since there were no toilets around.
  7. USslangTo bleed.
    • He shanked him, now he's leaking.
adjective
  1. obsoleteLeaky.