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PRIOR

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

PRIOR 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.

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adjective
  1. Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
    • His prior residence was smaller than his current one.
    • I had no prior knowledge you were coming.
  2. More important or significant.
  3. Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adverb
  1. Chiefly followed by to: in advance, before, previously.
    • The doctor had known three months prior.
noun
  1. A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
  2. broadlyIn the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
  3. CanadaUSA previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
  4. In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
  5. The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
  6. The head friar of a house of friars.
  7. The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
  8. An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
  9. historicalA chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
  10. historicalThe elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
  11. obsoleteA person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.
  12. obsoleteThe head of a company.