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UMLAUT

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

UMLAUT 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

UMLAUTS-s 5 UMLAUTING-ing 11 UMLAUTED-ed 11
noun
  1. An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
  2. The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
  3. A vowel so assimilated.
  4. The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
  5. informalSynonym of diaeresis.
    • "Naïve" takes an umlaut because it is pronounced as two syllables.
verb
  1. transitiveTo place an umlaut over (a vowel).
  2. transitiveTo modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
    • an umlauting vowel