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SPARE

5 letters

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

SPARE 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

SPARER-r 3 SPAREST-st 5 SPARES-s 3 SPARING 5 SPARED-d 3

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

SPARELY 5 SPARENESS 11 SPARINGLY 11 SPARENESSES 11
adjective
  1. Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
    • I have no spare time.
  2. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
    • a spare anchor; a spare wheel or tyre
  3. Not occupied or in current use.
    • We could rent out the spare room.
  4. Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
    • a spare diet
  5. Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
  6. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
  7. Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
  8. UKinformalVery angry; frustrated or distraught.
    • When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.
    • The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.
noun
  1. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
  2. Parsimony; frugal use.
  3. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
  4. That which has not been used or expended.
  5. especiallyA spare tire.
    • I stopped to help out. Do you have a spare? [Said by one motorist to another with a flat tire.]
  6. Any car part or comparable machine part in a supply chain.
    • People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.
  7. A superfluous or second-best person.
    • an heir and a spare
  8. The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
  9. The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
  10. CanadaA free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
  11. Myanmarassistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
verb
  1. intransitiveTo desist; to stop; to refrain.
  2. intransitiveTo refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
  3. transitiveTo preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
  4. specificallytransitiveTo refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
  5. intransitiveTo be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
  6. transitiveTo keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
  7. transitiveTo save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
  8. transitive(to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.