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SET

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

SET 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

SETS-s 1 SETTING-ting 5

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

SETNESS 5 SETTINGS 11 SETNESSES 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo put (something) down, to rest.
    • Set the tray there.
    • He helped his mother set the table for lunch.
  2. transitiveTo attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
    • I have set my heart on running the marathon.
  3. transitiveTo put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  4. transitiveTo start (a fire).
  5. datedtransitiveTo cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
    • to set a coach in the mud
  6. transitiveTo determine or settle.
    • to set the rent
  7. transitiveTo adjust.
    • I set the alarm at 6 a.m.
    • I set the alarm for 6 a.m.
  8. transitiveTo punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  9. transitiveTo arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
    • Please set the table for our guests.
  10. transitiveTo introduce or describe.
    • I’ll tell you what happened, but first let me set the scene.
  11. transitiveTo locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
    • He says he will set his next film in France.
    • Her debut novel is set during the U.S. Civil War.
  12. transitiveTo compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
    • This crossword was set by Araucaria.
  13. transitiveTo prepare (a stage or film set).
  14. transitiveTo fit (someone) up in a situation.
  15. transitiveTo arrange (type).
    • It was a complex page, but he set it quickly.
  16. transitiveTo devise and assign (work) to.
    • The teacher set her students the task of drawing a foot.
  17. transitiveTo direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  18. intransitiveTo gel; to solidify.
    • This glue sets in five minutes.
    • This jelly sets within a few hours when refrigerated.
  19. transitiveTo render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
    • to set milk for cheese
  20. intransitiveOf a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
    • The moon sets at eight o'clock tonight.
  21. transitiveTo defeat a contract.
  22. obsoleteTo begin to move; to go forth.
  23. transitiveTo produce after pollination.
    • to set seed
  24. intransitiveTo be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  25. dialectalintransitiveTo sit (be in a seated position).
    • He sets in that chair all day.
  26. dialectalintransitiveTo rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
  27. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  28. ambitransitiveOf a dog, to indicate the position of game.
    • The dog sets the bird.
    • Your dog sets well.
  29. To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
  30. ambitransitiveTo fit music to words.
  31. ambitransitiveTo place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
    • to set pear trees in an orchard
  32. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  33. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
    • The current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
  34. intransitiveTo acknowledge a dancing partner by facing them and moving first to one side and then to the other, while they do the opposite.
    • Set to partners! was the next instruction from the caller.
  35. To place or fix in a setting.
    • to set a precious stone in a border of metal
    • to set glass in a sash
  36. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
    • to set (that is, to hone) a razor
    • to set a saw
  37. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
    • to set the sails of a ship
  38. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  39. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
    • to set a broken bone
  40. dialectalintransitiveTo sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
  41. To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  42. obsoleteTo wager in gambling; to risk.
  43. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  44. obsoleteTo value; to rate; used with at.
  45. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
    • to set a good example
  46. ScotlandTo suit; to become.
    • It sets him ill.
  47. To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
    • To set a hen.
  48. To arrange the casting of a movie.
    • Paramont Pictures has set Jennifer Love Hewitt for a movie called Two Can Play This Game.
  49. UKTo divide a class group in a subject according to ability
noun
  1. A punch for setting nails in wood.
    • nail set
  2. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
    • television set
  3. alternativeAlternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
  4. alternativeAlternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
  5. alternativeAlternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
  6. A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
  7. The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
  8. A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
    • the set of a spring
  9. A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
  10. A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
  11. datedThe width of the body of a type.
  12. A young oyster when first attached.
  13. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  14. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
  15. colloquialThe manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
    • the set of a coat
  16. The pattern of a tartan, etc.
  17. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
  18. The full number of eggs set under a hen.
  19. obsoleterareThat which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
  20. A tool for dressing forged iron.
  21. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
  22. A rudimentary fruit.
  23. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
  24. figurativelyliterallyGeneral movement; direction; drift; tendency.
  25. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
    • a set of tables
  26. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
    • a set of tools
  27. An object made up of several parts.
    • a set of steps
  28. A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
  29. informalpluralSet theory.
  30. A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
    • the country set
  31. The scenery for a film or play.
  32. the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
  33. The initial or basic formation of dancers.
  34. A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
  35. A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
  36. A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
  37. The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
  38. A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
  39. A drum kit, a drum set.
    • He plays the set on Saturdays.
  40. UKA class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
  41. slangThree of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
adjective
  1. Fixed in position.
  2. Rigid, solidified.
  3. Ready, prepared.
    • on your marks, get set, go!; on your marks, set, go!
  4. Intent, determined (to do something).
    • set on getting to his destination
  5. Prearranged.
    • a set menu
    • a set book
  6. Fixed in one’s opinion.
    • I’m set against the idea of smacking children to punish them.
  7. Fixed in a certain style.