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ROT

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

ROT is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

ROTS-s 1 ROTTING-ting 5 ROTTED-ted 3
verb
  1. intransitiveTo suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
    • The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
  2. intransitiveTo decline in function or utility.
    • Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
  3. ambitransitiveTo (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
  4. transitiveTo make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
    • to rot vegetable fiber
  5. figurativelyintransitiveTo spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
    • to rot in prison
    • to rot in Hell
    • If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...
  6. transitiveTo expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
  7. datedslangTo talk nonsense.
  8. imperativeslangtransitiveDamn; blast.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  2. countableuncountableDecaying matter.
  3. countableuncountableAny of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  4. uncountableVerbal nonsense.
    • You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.