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TARTAN

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

TARTAN 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

TARTANS-s 5 TARTANED-ed 11 TARTANA-a 5 TARTANE-e 5

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TARTANES 11
noun
  1. uncountableWoven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
  2. countableA pattern used on such fabric.
  3. uncountableClothing made from this fabric.
  4. countablefigurativelyAn individual who wears tartan (etymology 1, noun sense 1.2); specifically, a Scottish Highlander, or a Scottish person (chiefly a Scotsman) in general.
  5. countablefigurativelyA type of fly used in fly fishing, often to catch salmon.
  6. UKcountablefigurativelyA young person who is a member of a Protestant gang in Northern Ireland.
  7. figurativelyuncountablePreceded by the: a group of people customarily wearing tartan; Scottish Highlanders or Scottish people collectively; also, the soldiers of a Scottish Highland regiment collectively.
  8. attributiveuncountableOriginally a trade name in the form Tartan: a synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, running tracks, etc.
  9. ScotlandabbreviationellipsisuncountableEllipsis of tartan-purry (“a porridge made from cabbage mixed with oatmeal”).
  10. transitiveA type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean.
adjective
  1. Made of tartan (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), or having a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles like a that of a tartan.
  2. figurativelyhumoroussometimesOf or relating to Scotland, its culture, or people; Scottish.
verb
  1. transitiveTo clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.2).
  2. transitiveTo apply a tartan pattern to (something).
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo make (something) Scottish, or more Scottish; to tartanize.