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UMLAUTING

9 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

UMLAUTING is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

UMLAUTING root UMLAUT-ing

Word family

UMLAUT 3 UMLAUTS-s 5 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