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LITERAL

7 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

LITERAL 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.

Word family

adjective
  1. Exactly as stated; read or understood without interpretation; according to the letter; not figurative or metaphorical; following the letter or exact words; not taking liberties; etymonic rather than idiomatic.
    • The literal translation of Spanish irse al otro barrio is "to go to the other neighbourhood" but it means "to die".
    • A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
  2. Actual, real, physical.
  3. broadlyThat which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given text is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it.
  4. specificallyFollowing the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation.
  5. uncommonConsisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet); using literation.
    • a literal equation
  6. Unimaginative; matter-of-fact; literal-minded.
  7. proscribedUsed nonliterally as an intensifier. See literally for usage notes.
    • Telemarketers are the literal worst.
  8. misspellingMisspelling of littoral.
noun
  1. A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
  2. An atomic formula (consisting of a propositional variable) or its negation.
  3. A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
  4. misspellingMisspelling of littoral.