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PINCHES

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

PINCHES is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

PINCHES root PINCH-es

Word family

PINCH 2 PINCHING-ing 11 PINCHED-ed 5

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

PINCHINGS 11 PINCHINGLY 11
verb
  1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
    • The children were scolded for pinching each other.
    • This shoe pinches my foot.
  2. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
  3. To squeeze between two objects.
  4. intransitiveOf clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
  5. slangtransitiveTo steal, usually something inconsequential.
    • Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
  6. slangtransitiveTo arrest or capture.
  7. To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  8. To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  9. To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  10. intransitiveobsoleteTo be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
  11. To seize; to grip; to bite.
  12. figurativelyTo cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
    • to be pinched for money
  13. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
  14. obsoleteTo complain or find fault.
noun
  1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  2. A close compression of anything with the fingers.
    • I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
  3. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
    • Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.
  4. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
  5. A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
  6. An organic herbal smoke additive.
  7. A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
  8. The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
  9. slangAn arrest.
  10. AustraliaA steep incline; a very steep section of road.