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ORPHANING

9 letters

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

ORPHANING 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.

ORPHANING root ORPHAN-ing

Word family

ORPHAN 3 ORPHANS-s 5 ORPHANED-ed 11

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

ORPHANISM 11 ORPHANISMS 11
noun
  1. A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
  2. A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
  3. A young animal with no mother.
  4. figurativelyAnything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
  5. A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
  6. Any unreferenced object.
adjective
  1. Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
    • She is an orphan child.
  2. broadlyfigurativelyRemaining after the removal of some form of support.
    • With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
verb
  1. transitiveTo deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive).
    • What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
  2. transitiveTo make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
    • When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
    • Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.