Boggle Word Finder
SHOEHORN
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
11
pts
SHOEHORN is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.
Word family
noun
- A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place.
- derogatoryAnything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
- obsoleteAnything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
verb
- literallyTo use a shoehorn.
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figurativelytransitiveTo force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
- I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went.
- His staff want to shoehorn an extra stop into his already packed campaigning schedule.
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figurativelytransitiveTo force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.
- People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.