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RATHER

6 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

RATHER 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.

adverb
  1. Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than)
    • I'd rather not have spent all the money, but it really was an emergency.
    • I would like this one rather than the other one.
    • I s'pose we'd better clean the kitchen, but we had much rather not do anything right now.
    • Tomorrow's impossible. We'd rather you came next weekend.
    • They'd rather've spent the money on a holiday.
  2. conjunctiveUsed to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary.
    • It wasn't supposed to be popular; rather, it was supposed to get the job done.
    • She didn't go along, but rather went home instead.
  3. conjunctiveIntroducing a qualification or clarification; more precisely. (Now usually preceded by or.)
    • I didn't want to leave. Or rather I did, just not alone.
  4. Somewhat, quite; to an unexpected degree.
    • It's been rather/quite a good meal overall, but this melon is rather too tasteless.
    • We had some rather worse news today.
    • We’ll be seeing rather a lot of you over the next few days.
  5. 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 45
  6. Translated from the original Latin, it reads, “Ivan the third; does it with birds.” Rather juvenile, don’t you think?
  7. obsoleteMore quickly.
adjective
  1. obsoletePrior; earlier; former.
interjection
  1. EnglanddatedAn enthusiastic affirmation.
    • Would you like some? –Rather!
noun
  1. datedinformaluncommonA choice or a preference.
verb
  1. dialectalnonstandardTo prefer; to prefer to.
    • You'd rather us be dead.