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Boggle Word Finder

TAB

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

TAB is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

TABS-s 1 TABBING-bing 5 TABBED-bed 3
noun
  1. A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
    • insert tab A into slot B
  2. slangAn ear.
  3. broadlyA navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
  4. broadlyThe page or form (for example, on a web browser or file manager) associated with such a navigational widget.
    • How many tabs are open on your browser right now?
  5. slangA fast march or run with full kit.
  6. CanadaUSinformalA restaurant bill.
    • to pick up the tab
  7. CanadaUSinformalCredit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate.
    • to start a tab
    • Put this round on my tab, please, barman.
  8. broadlyThe cost or bill for anything.
  9. A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
  10. GeordieMackemA cigarette.
    • Lend us a tab!
  11. A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
  12. A student of Cambridge University.
  13. colloquialA tabloid newspaper.
  14. informalA tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
  15. informalA tableau curtain.
verb
  1. transitiveTo affix with tabs; to label.
  2. To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.