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RANSOM

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

RANSOM is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

RANSOMS-s 5 RANSOMING-ing 11 RANSOMED-ed 11

Might be on the same board

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

RANSOMER 11 RANSOMERS 11 RANSOMABLE 11
noun
  1. uncountableusuallyMoney paid for the freeing of a hostage.
    • They were held for two million dollars ransom.
    • They were held to ransom.
  2. uncountableusuallyThe release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
    • prisoners hopeless of ransom
  3. UKhistoricaluncountableusuallyA sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
verb
  1. obsoleteTo deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
  2. To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
    • to ransom prisoners from an enemy
  3. To exact a ransom (payment) in exchange for the freedom of.