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PLUCK

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

PLUCK is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

PLUCKS-s 3 PLUCKING-ing 11 PLUCKED-ed 5
verb
  1. transitiveTo pull something sharply; to pull something out
    • She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
  2. transitiveTo take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
  3. transitiveTo play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
    • Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
  4. transitiveTo remove feathers from (a bird).
  5. archaictransitiveTo rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
  6. transitiveTo play a string instrument pizzicato.
    • Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.
  7. intransitiveTo pull or twitch sharply.
    • to pluck at somebody's sleeve
  8. UKobsoletetransitiveTo reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
  9. Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
noun
  1. countableuncountableAn instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
    • Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.
  2. countableuncountableThe lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  3. figurativelyinformaluncountableGuts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
    • He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
  4. slanguncountableCheap wine.