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TRY

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

TRY is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

TRIES 2 TRYING-ing 3 TRIED 2 TRIE 1

Might be on the same board

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

TRYINGS 5 TRYINGLY 11
verb
  1. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
    • I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t.
    • Can you start the car? —I'll try (to).
  2. obsoleteTo separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
  3. obsoleteTo winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
    • to try out the wild corn from the good
  4. obsoleteTo extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
  5. obsoleteTo extract wax from a honeycomb
  6. To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
    • I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade.
  7. To put to test.
    • I shall try my skills on this.
  8. specificallyTo test someone's patience.
    • You are trying my patience.
    • Don't try me.
  9. slangTo fight or to make an attempt at an attack.
    • You wouldn't dare and try me!
    • You fixin' to try something, fool?
  10. figurativelyTo receive an imminent attack; to take.
  11. To taste, sample, etc.
    • Oh, you need to try the soup of the day!
  12. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
    • to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a person's opinions
  13. To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
    • I'll try whether I can make it across town on foot.
  14. To put on trial.
    • He was tried and executed.
  15. To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
  16. To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
    • Dad, for God's sake, I'm trying my best!
    • You are trying too hard.
  17. obsoleteTo do; to fare.
    • How do you try! (i.e., how do you do?)
  18. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
    • to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions
  19. euphemisticTo attempt to conceive a child.
  20. To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
  21. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
    • The light tries his eyes.
    • Repeated failures try one's patience.
  22. slangTo want, to desire.
    • I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that.
noun
  1. An attempt.
    • I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.
  2. An act of tasting or sampling.
    • I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.
  3. A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
    • Today I scored my first try.
  4. UKdialectalobsoleteA screen, or sieve, for grain.
  5. A field goal or extra point
  6. A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
  7. A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
adjective
  1. obsoleteFine, excellent.