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SCALE

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

SCALE 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

SCALES-s 3 SCALING 5 SCALED-d 3

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SCALINGS 11
noun
  1. obsoleteA ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
  2. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
    • Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
    • The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
  3. Size; scope.
    • There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
  4. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
    • This map uses a scale of 1:10.
  5. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
  6. A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
  7. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
    • the decimal scale, the binary scale
  8. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
  9. A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
    • Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
  10. countableuncountablePart of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
  11. countableuncountableA small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
  12. countableuncountableA flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
  13. countableuncountablePart of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
  14. uncountableThe flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
  15. countableuncountableScale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
  16. uncountableLimescale.
  17. countableuncountableA scale insect.
  18. countableuncountableThe thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
  19. USuncountableAn infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
  20. A device to measure mass or weight.
    • After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
  21. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
verb
  1. transitiveTo change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
    • We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
  2. transitiveTo climb to the top of.
    • Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
  3. intransitiveTo tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
    • That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
  4. transitiveTo weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
  5. transitiveTo take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions.
    • Every single drawing in the specification has a warning in its title block which reads, "Do not scale this drawing."
  6. transitiveTo remove the scales of.
    • Please scale that fish for dinner.
  7. intransitiveTo become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
    • The dry weather is making my skin scale.
  8. transitiveTo strip or clear of scale; to descale.
    • to scale the inside of a boiler
  9. transitiveTo take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
  10. intransitiveTo separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
    • Some sandstone scales by exposure.
  11. ScotlandUKdialectalTo scatter; to spread.
  12. transitiveTo clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.