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RATCHET

7 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

RATCHET is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

RATCHETS-s 11 RACHET 3 RATCHETING-ing 11 RATCHETED-ed 11
noun
  1. A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
  2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
  3. A ratchet wrench.
  4. broadlyA procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
  5. A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
  6. A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
  7. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of full ratchet.
  8. USderogatoryslangA person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa.
    • This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.
  2. transitiveTo cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.
    • Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK?
    • It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here.
adjective
  1. USderogatoryslangGhetto; unseemly, indecorous.