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TAPER

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

TAPER 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

TAPERS-s 3 TAPERING-ing 11 TAPERED-ed 5

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TAPERER 5 TAPERERS 11 TAPERINGS 11 TAPERNESS 11 TAPERINGLY 11 TAPERNESSES 11
noun
  1. A slender wax candle.
  2. broadlyA small light.
  3. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
    • the taper of a spire
    • The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.
  4. The portion of an object with such a form.
    • ensuring the cleanliness of the taper of a machine tool spindle or of a tool shank
  5. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of machine taper.
  6. historicalA long wick or thin stick used for transferring flames to candles, now usually chemically-treated to burn particularly slowly.
  7. A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
  8. figurativelyGradual reduction over time.
    • a drug taper
  9. One who operates a tape machine.
  10. Someone who works with tape or tapes.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make thinner or narrower at one end.
  2. intransitiveTo become thinner or narrower at one end.
  3. ambitransitiveTo diminish gradually.
  4. intransitiveTo tighten monetary policy.
adjective
  1. Tapered; narrowing to a point.