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SIEVE

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

SIEVE 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

SIEVES-s 3 SIEVING 5 SIEVED-d 3
noun
  1. A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
    • Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
  2. A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
    • Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
  3. obsoleteA kind of coarse basket.
  4. colloquialA person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
  5. derogatoryslangAn intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
  6. A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
verb
  1. transitiveTo strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
  2. transitiveTo concede; to let in.