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TRIAL

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

TRIAL 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

TRIALS-s 3 TRIALLING-ling 11 TRIALLED-led 11
noun
  1. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
  2. The testing of a product or procedure.
    • They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.
  3. A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
    • A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
  4. An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
    • soccer trials; sheepdog trials
  5. A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
  6. UKAn internal examination set by Eton College.
  7. archaicAn occasion on which armies or individuals meet in combat.
  8. A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
    • If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal.
    • He was charged with war crimes and brought to trial before the International Tribunal.
    • The journalists have been held in custody for three years without trial.
  9. A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
    • That boy was a trial to his parents.
  10. archaicThe action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.)
  11. The trial number.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to a trial or test.
  2. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
  3. Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
  4. Triple.
  5. Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.)
    • No language has a trial number unless it has a dual.
verb
  1. transitiveTo carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it.
    • The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles.
  2. transitiveTo try out (a new player) in a sports team.
    • The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.