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STIFLE

6 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

STIFLE is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

STIFLES-s 5 STIFLING 11 STIFLED-d 5

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

STIFLINGS 11 STIFLINGLY 11
verb
  1. alsofigurativelytransitiveTo make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
  2. excessivetransitiveTo cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
    • The heat was stifling the children.
  3. alsofigurativelytransitiveTo prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
  4. transitiveTo make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
  5. figurativelytransitiveTo keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
    • The army stifled the rebellion.
  6. figurativelytransitiveTo prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
  7. transitiveTo treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
  8. intransitiveTo die of suffocation.
    • Two firemen tragically stifled in yesterday’s fire when trying to rescue an old lady from her bedroom.
  9. excessiveintransitiveTo smother; to make breathing difficult.
    • This heat is stifling.
  10. transitiveTo cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
noun
  1. rareAn act or state of being stifled.
  2. The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
  3. A bone disease of this region.