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LITERALLY

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

LITERALLY is a valid 9-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 18 in Super Big Boggle.

adverb
  1. Without overstatement or understatement, or false or misleading words.
    • He's prone to exaggeration, so don't take what he says literally.
    • There are literally millions of individual pieces of space debris orbiting Earth.
  2. With phrasings that might normally be used or understood as figurative: truly; not figuratively; not as an idiom or metaphor.
    • When I saw on the news that there would be no school tomorrow because of the snowstorm, I literally jumped for joy, and hit my head on the ceiling fan.
    • I didn't have time to repair the wall, so I literally just papered over the cracks.
  3. Draws attention to a pun or other wordplay involving an idiom.
    • My daughter's pet rabbit had babies, and now we've literally got rabbits coming out of our ears.
  4. colloquialUsed as a general intensifier or dramatiser, sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler.
    • I had no idea, so I was literally guessing.
    • I was literally having breakfast when she arrived.
    • She was literally like, "What?", and I was literally like, "Yeah".
    • Literally who is this?
  5. proscribedsometimesUsed as an intensifier with statements or terms that are in fact meant figuratively and not word for word as stated.
    • He was so surprised, he literally jumped twenty feet in the air.
    • On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.
    • People can't even express their opinions freely in this country any more. Literally 1984!
  6. colloquialUsed as a generic downtoner: just, merely.
    • It's not even hard⁠ to make—you literally just put it in the microwave for five minutes and it's done.
    • It won't take me long to get back, 'cause the store's literally two blocks away.