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REFER

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

REFER 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.

Word family

REFERS-s 3 REFERRING-ring 11 REFERRED-red 11

Might be on the same board

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

REFERENT 11 REFERABLE 11 REFERENCE 11 REFERENTS 11 REFERENCES 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo direct the attention of (someone toward something).
    • The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
  2. transitiveTo submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
    • He referred the matter to the principal.
    • The doctor may refer patients to a psychiatrist.
    • I'll refer the objections back to management for reconsideration.
  3. transitiveTo place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
    • He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
  4. intransitiveTo mention (something); to direct attention (to something).
    • To explain the problem, the teacher referred to an example in another textbook.
  5. intransitivestativeTo make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
    • The recipe referred to several unusual ingredients.
  6. To be referential to another element in a sentence.
  7. intransitiveTo point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object.
    • In C, the pointer obtained by &a refers to the variable a.
  8. transitiveTo require to resit an examination.
    • Smith's marks in the finals were unsatisfactory and he was referred.
  9. intransitiveTo have the meaning of, to denote.
    • The nickname "Big Apple" refers to the city of New York.
    • In programming, a "memory leak" refers to a situation where memory is or stays unnecessarily allocated.
  10. transitiveTo cause (pain) to be felt elsewhere.
  11. To apparently relocate; to be felt in another place than where it is actually caused.
noun
  1. A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.