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PING

4 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

PING 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

PINGS-s 2 PINGING-ing 5 PINGED-ed 3 PANG 1 PUNG 1
noun
  1. A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
    • My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.
  2. A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
    • The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
  3. A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
    • The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
  4. InternetAn email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
    • I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.
  5. Latency.
  6. A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
  7. A notification.
verb
  1. To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
    • My car was pinging until my last oil change.
  2. To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  3. To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
    • I'm pinging their server.
    • The server pings its affiliates periodically.
  4. broadlyTo send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
    • I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
  5. colloquialTo flick.
    • I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
  6. colloquialintransitiveTo bounce.
    • The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
  7. colloquialtransitiveTo cause something to bounce.
  8. colloquialTo call out audibly.
  9. AustraliacolloquialTo penalize.
    • Gary Ablett was pinged for holding the ball and gave away a free kick.
  10. ambitransitiveslangTo trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
    • Bob has two kids, but he really pings.