Boggle Word Finder
MERIT
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
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pts
Big
2
pts
Super Big
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pts
MERIT 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
- countableA claim to commendation or a reward.
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countableA mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
- For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
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countableuncountableSomething deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
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JainismuncountableThe sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
- to acquire or make merit
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uncountableUsually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
- Even though the plaintiff was ordered by the judge to pay some costs for not having followed the correct procedure, she won the case on the merits.
- countableobsoleteThe quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
verb
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transitiveTo deserve, to earn.
- Her performance merited wild applause.
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intransitiveTo be deserving or worthy.
- They were punished as they merited.
- obsoleteraretransitiveTo reward.