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TOOLS

5 letters

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

TOOLS 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.

TOOLS root TOOL-s

Word family

TOOL 1 TOOLING-ing 5 TOOLED-ed 3

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

TOOLINGS 11
noun
  1. Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
    • Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.
    • A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.
    • A stapler is a tool for attaching papers to others.
  2. Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.
    • the tools of the trade
    • Rakes, shovels, hoes, and spades are some of the tools of the gardener's trade.
    • I don't have the right tools to start fiddling around with the engine.
    • A timing light is a tool that only an automotive mechanic, professional or amateur, would have.
  3. Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
    • Idleness is a tool of the devil.
    • A spreadsheet app and a bookkeeping app are some of the principal tools of a bookkeeper.
  4. A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
    • The software engineer had been developing lots of EDA tools.
    • a tool for recovering deleted files from a disk
  5. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.
    • She was a tool of the pharmaceutical lobby.
    • He was a tool of a foreign influence operation.
  6. A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
    • a five-tool player
  7. informalvulgarA penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
  8. broadlyderogatoryslangvulgarAn obnoxious or uptight person.
    • He won't sell us tickets because it's 3:01, and they went off sale at 3. That guy's such a tool.
  9. CanadaUSslangA handgun.
verb
  1. transitiveTo work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
  2. transitiveTo equip with tools.
  3. intransitiveTo work very hard.
  4. slangtransitiveTo put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
    • Dude, he's not your friend. He's just tooling you.
  5. transitiveTo intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
  6. UKdatedslangtransitiveTo drive (a coach or other vehicle).
  7. UKdatedslangtransitiveTo carry or convey in a coach or other vehicle.
  8. intransitiveslangTo travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.