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SCONCES

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

SCONCES is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

SCONCES root SCONCE-s

Word family

SCONCE 3 SCONCING 11 SCONCED-d 5
noun
  1. A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
  2. A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
  3. A head or a skull.
  4. A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
  5. An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
  6. A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
  7. obsoleteA hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
  8. A squinch.
  9. A fragment of a floe of ice.
  10. A fixed seat or shelf.
verb
  1. obsoleteTo impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
  2. During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.
    • I sconce anyone who has ever…
  3. obsoleteTo shut within a sconce; to imprison.