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SKEWEST

7 letters

◐ IN SOME DICTIONARIES
TWL06 ✗ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✗
Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

SKEWEST is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in SOWPODS but not TWL06 and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

SKEWEST root SKEW-est

Word family

SKEW 1 SKEWS-s 2 SKEWING-ing 5 SKEWED-ed 3 SKEWER-er 3
verb
  1. transitiveTo form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
  2. transitiveTo cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
  3. transitiveTo bias or distort in a particular direction.
    • A disproportionate number of female subjects in the study group skewed the results.
  4. NorthumbriaYorkshiretransitiveTo hurl or throw.
  5. intransitiveTo move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
  6. intransitiveTo jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
  7. intransitiveTo look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
adjective
  1. usuallyNeither parallel nor perpendicular to a certain line; askew.
    • a skew arch
  2. usuallyOf two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
  3. comparableusuallyOf a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
adverb
  1. rareAskew, obliquely; awry.
noun
  1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
  2. An oblique or sideways movement.
  3. A squint or sidelong glance.
  4. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
  5. A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
  6. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  7. A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  8. A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
  9. A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
  10. ScotlandThe coping of a gable.
  11. obsoleteOne of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
  12. CornwallA thick drizzling rain or driving mist.