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SPANS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

SPANS 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.

SPANS root SPAN-s

Word family

SPAN 1 SPANNING-ning 11 SPANNED-ned 5 SPUN 1
noun
  1. The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
  2. Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
  3. broadlyA small space or a brief portion of time.
    • He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.
  4. A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
  5. The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
  6. The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
  7. A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
  8. CanadaUSA pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
  9. The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
  10. The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
  11. wingspan of a plane or bird
verb
  1. transitiveTo extend across (a gap or space between two sides).
    • The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.
  2. transitiveTo cover or extend over (an area or distance).
    • The parking lot spans three acres.
    • The forest spans the entire valley.
  3. transitiveTo extend through (a period of time).
    • The novel spans three centuries.
    • His career spanned five decades.
  4. transitiveTo measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
  5. To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
  6. USdatedintransitiveTo be matched, as horses.
  7. transitiveTo fetter, as a horse; to hobble.