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SOUR

4 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

SOUR is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

SOURER-er 3 SOUREST-est 5 SOWER 2 SOURS-s 2 SOURING-ing 5 SOURED-ed 3

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

SOURLY 3 SOURINGS 11 SOURNESS 11 SOURNESSES 11
adjective
  1. Tasting of acidity.
    • Lemons have a sour taste.
  2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
    • Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
  3. Tasting or smelling rancid.
    • His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
  4. Hostile or unfriendly.
    • He gave me a sour look.
  5. Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
    • sour land
    • a sour marsh
  6. Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
    • sour gas smells like rotten eggs
  7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  8. Off-pitch, out of tune.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe sensation of a sour taste.
  2. countableuncountableA drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
  3. broadlycountableuncountableAny cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
  4. countableuncountableA sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
  5. countableuncountableA sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  6. countableuncountableThe acidic solution used in souring fabric.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make sour.
    • Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
  2. intransitiveTo become sour.
  3. transitiveTo spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
  4. intransitiveTo become disenchanted.
    • We broke up after our relationship soured.
  5. transitiveTo make (soil) cold and unproductive.
  6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
  7. transitiveTo process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.