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PENUMBRA

8 letters

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

PENUMBRA is a valid 8-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 11 in Super Big Boggle.

noun
  1. A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse.
  2. A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot.
  3. figurativelyAn area of uncertainty or intermediacy between two mutually exclusive states or categories.
  4. figurativelyAn area that lies on the edge of something; a fringe.
  5. Something related to, connected to, and implied by, the existence of something else that is necessary for the second thing to be full and complete in its essential aspects.
  6. A region of the brain that has lost only some of its blood supply, and retains structural integrity but has lost function.