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STAKE

5 letters

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

STAKE 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

STAKES-s 3 STAKING 5 STAKED-d 3
noun
  1. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
    • We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
  2. A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
  3. A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
  4. The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
    • Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
  5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
    • The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
  6. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
  7. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
  8. MormonismA territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
verb
  1. transitiveTo fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
    • to stake vines or plants
  2. transitiveTo pierce or wound with a stake.
  3. transitiveTo put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
  4. transitiveTo provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
    • John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
    • His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
  5. To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.