Boggledygook

Boggle Word Finder

SCOPES

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

SCOPES is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

SCOPES root SCOPE-s

Word family

SCOPE 2 SCOPING 5 SCOPED-d 3
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
    • Environmental impacts lie outside the scope of this report.
    • Such transactions fall within the scope of VAT.
  2. countableuncountableA device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
  3. countableuncountablePotential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
    • My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development.
  4. countableuncountableThe region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
  5. countableuncountableThe shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
  6. countableuncountableThe region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
    • the scope of an adverb
  7. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on.
  8. colloquialcountableuncountableAny medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
  9. obsoleteA bundle, as of twigs.
verb
  1. informaltransitiveTo perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
  2. colloquialTo perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
    • The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
  3. To define the scope of something.
  4. To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
    • If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.
  5. informalTo examine under a microscope.
    • The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
  6. informalTo observe a bird using a spotting scope.