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LURCH

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

LURCH 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.

Word family

LURCHES-es 5 LURCHING-ing 11 LURCHED-ed 5
noun
  1. A sudden or unsteady movement.
    • the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
  2. dialectalA lift or heave.
  3. countableuncountableA predicament or difficult situation.
    • to leave someone in the lurch
  4. countableuncountableAn old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  5. countableuncountableA double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
verb
  1. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
  2. obsoleteTo swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
  3. dialectalintransitiveTo evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
  4. dialectalintransitiveTo take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
  5. obsoletetransitiveTo rob.
  6. transitiveTo defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
  7. obsoletetransitiveTo leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.