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PUBLICAN

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

PUBLICAN 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.

Word family

noun
  1. IrelandUKThe landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”).
  2. CommonwealthbroadlyThe manager or owner of a hotel.
  3. historicalA tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire.
  4. archaicbroadlyAny person who collects customs duties, taxes, tolls, or other forms of public revenue.
  5. archaicfigurativelyOne regarded as extorting money from others by charging high prices.
  6. archaicfigurativelyA person excommunicated from the church; an excommunicant or excommunicate; also, a person who does not follow a Christian religion; a heathen, a pagan.