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STRESSING

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

STRESSING is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

STRESSING root STRESS-ing

Word family

STRESS 3 STRESSES-es 11 STRESSED-ed 11

Might be on the same board

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

STRESSFUL 11 STRESSFULLY 11 STRESSFULNESS 11 STRESSFULNESSES 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
  2. countableuncountableAggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
  3. countableThe internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
  4. countableForce externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
  5. uncountableEmotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
    • Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
  6. broadlycountableA suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
    • lexical stress
    • phrase stress, prosodic stress
    • Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
  7. countableThe suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
  8. uncountableEmphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
  9. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of distress.
  10. countableuncountabledistress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
verb
  1. transitiveTo apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
  2. transitiveTo apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
  3. informalintransitiveTo suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
  4. transitiveTo emphasise (a syllable of a word).
    • “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
  5. transitiveTo emphasise (words in speaking).
  6. transitiveTo emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
    • I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.