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LEGITIMATING

12 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 24 pts

LEGITIMATING is a valid 12-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 24 in Super Big Boggle.

LEGITIMATING root LEGITIMATE

adjective
  1. In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
  2. Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
    • legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
  3. Authentic, real, genuine.
    • legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions
  4. Lawfully begotten, i.e. born to a married couple or later legitimated.
  5. Legally married.
    • Besides his four legitimate wives, the caliph had dozens of concubines.
  6. Relating to hereditary rights.
  7. Belonging or relating to the legitimate theater.
noun
  1. A person born to a legally married couple.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.