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TENSE

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

TENSE 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

TENSES-s 3 TENSING 5 TENSED-d 3 TENSER-r 3 TENSEST-st 5

Might be on the same board

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

TENSELY 5 TENSENESS 11 TENSENESSES 11
noun
  1. uncountableThe property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
    • Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
  2. countableAn inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
    • English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.
  3. countableproscribedA grammatical aspect.
  4. countableproscribedA verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
    • The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings.
    • The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.
verb
  1. transitiveTo apply a tense to.
    • tensing a verb
  2. transitiveTo make tense.
  3. intransitiveTo become tense.
adjective
  1. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
    • You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
  2. Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
  3. Pulled taut, without any slack.
  4. Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.