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SKEINED

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

SKEINED 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.

SKEINED root SKEIN-ed

Word family

SKEIN 2 SKEINS-s 3 SKEAN 2 SKEINING-ing 11
noun
  1. A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
  2. broadlyThe membrane of a fish ovary.
  3. UKbroadlycollectivedialectalA group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
  4. alsoattributivebroadlyobsoleteSynonym of spireme (“the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)”).
  5. figurativelyA tangle, a weave, a web.
  6. figurativelyA winning streak.
  7. USdatedfigurativelyA series created by a web (“major broadcasting network”).
  8. transitiveA thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.
  9. USdatedtransitiveA metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle of a wagon.
verb
  1. transitiveTo weave or wind (thread, yarn, etc.) into a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo intertwine or weave (something) with another thing.