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ROOT

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

ROOT is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

ROOTS-s 2 ROOTING-ing 5 ROOTED-ed 3 ROUT 1 WROOT 2

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

ROOTEDLY 11 ROOTINGS 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
    • This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
  2. countableuncountableA root vegetable.
  3. countableuncountableThe part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
    • Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
  4. countableuncountableThe part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
    • The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
  5. countableuncountableThe part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
    • He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.
  6. countablefigurativelyuncountableThe primary source; origin.
    • The love of money is the root of all evil.
  7. countableuncountableThe section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
  8. countableuncountableThe bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
    • The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.
  9. countableuncountableOf a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
    • The cube root of 27 is 3.
  10. countableuncountableA square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
    • Multiply by root 2.
  11. countableuncountableA zero (of an equation).
  12. countableuncountableThe single node of a tree that has no parent.
  13. countableuncountableThe primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
  14. countableuncountableA word from which another word or words are derived.
  15. countableuncountableThe fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
  16. countableuncountableThe lowest place, position, or part.
  17. countableuncountableIn UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
    • I have to log in as root before I do that.
  18. countableuncountableThe highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
    • I installed the files in the root directory.
  19. countableslanguncountableA penis, especially the base of a penis.
  20. An act of rummaging or searching.
  21. AustraliaslangvulgarAn act of sexual intercourse.
    • Fancy a root?
  22. AustraliaslangvulgarA sexual partner.
verb
  1. To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
    • The cuttings are starting to root.
  2. To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
    • We rooted some cuttings last summer.
  3. To fix firmly; to establish.
  4. slangtransitiveTo get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
    • We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
    • I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.
  5. ambitransitiveTo turn up or dig with the snout.
    • A pig roots the earth for truffles.
  6. broadlyTo seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
  7. intransitiveTo rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
    • rooting about in a junk-filled drawer
  8. intransitiveOf a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
  9. transitiveTo root out; to abolish.
  10. To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
  11. AustraliaIrelandslangvulgarTo sexually penetrate.
  12. USintransitiveTo cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
    • I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!