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MAPLE

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

MAPLE 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

noun
  1. countableA small tree, Acer campestre, known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
  2. countableOften preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of the genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood; especially the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) native to North America which has brightly coloured autumn foliage and is the primary source of maple syrup.
    • Russian maple
    • They have a large maple in their yard.
  3. countableChiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of a genus other than Acer which has an appearance or wood similar to an Acer tree.
    • Queensland maple
  4. uncountableWood of an Acer tree, valued for its attractive appearance and hardness; also, similar wood from a tree of a genus other than Acer; (countable) a particular type of such wood.
    • This table is made of maple and also has some fruitwood inlays.
  5. uncountableThe light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 1.3).
  6. uncountableThe flavour of maple syrup made from the sap of a maple tree, or an imitation of that flavour.
    • What flavour is your ice-cream? Mine’s maple—it’s delicious.
  7. abbreviationcountableShort for maple pea (“the field pea (Pisum sativum subsp. arvense) which has brown, speckled seeds used dry rather than fresh; a seed of this plant”).
  8. archaicSynonym of mapau (“any of several trees of New Zealand, especially in the genus Myrsine”).
adjective
  1. Of the light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 1.3).
  2. Of the flavour of, or made with, maple syrup.