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PAIR

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

PAIR is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

PAIRS-s 2 PAIRING-ing 5 PAIRED-ed 3

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

PAIRE 2 PAIRES 3 PAIRINGS 11
noun
  1. Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
    • I couldn't decide which of the pair of designer shirts I preferred, so I bought the pair.
  2. One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
  3. Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
    • Spouses should make a great pair.
  4. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
    • a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans
  5. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
    • A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.
  6. A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
  7. A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
  8. informalA double play, two outs recorded in one play.
    • They turned a pair to end the fifth.
  9. informalA doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
    • The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.
  10. A boat for two sweep rowers.
  11. slangA pair of breasts.
    • She's got a gorgeous pair.
  12. slangA pair of testicles.
    • Grow a pair, mate.
  13. AustraliaThe exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
  14. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
    • There were two pairs on the final vote.
  15. archaicA number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
  16. In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
verb
  1. transitiveTo group into one or more sets of two.
    • The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
  2. to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
    • It was not possible to pair my smartphone with an incompatible smartwatch.
  3. transitiveTo bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
  4. intransitiveTo come together for mating.
  5. slangTo engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
  6. intransitiveTo suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
  7. obsoletetransitiveTo impair, to make worse.
  8. intransitiveobsoleteTo become worse, to deteriorate.