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SCABS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

SCABS 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.

SCABS root SCAB-s

Word family

SCAB 1 SCABBING-bing 11 SCABBED-bed 5
noun
  1. countableuncountableAn incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  2. colloquialcountableobsoleteuncountableThe scabies.
  3. countableuncountableThe mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
  4. uncountableAny of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
  5. countableuncountableCommon scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
  6. countableuncountableAny one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  7. countableuncountableA slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  8. countableuncountableA mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  9. countablederogatoryslanguncountableA worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo become covered by a scab or scabs.
  2. intransitiveTo form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
  3. transitiveTo remove part of a surface (from).
  4. intransitiveTo act as a strikebreaker.
  5. AustraliaUKinformaltransitiveTo beg (for), to cadge or bum.
    • I scabbed some money off a friend.