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USE

3 letters

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

USE 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

USES-s 1 USING 2 USED-d 1

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

USEFUL 3 USEFULS 5 USEFULLY 11 USEFULNESS 11 USEFULNESSES 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe act of using.
    • The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
  2. uncountableThe act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
  3. uncountableUsefulness, utility, benefit; purpose, point.
    • What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
    • There's no use in spewing a million words about it; whatever will be, will be.
  4. countableuncountableA function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
    • This tool has many uses.
  5. countableuncountableOccasion or need to employ; necessity.
    • I have no further use for these textbooks.
  6. countableobsoleterareuncountableInterest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
  7. archaiccountableuncountableContinued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
  8. countableobsoleteuncountableCommon occurrence; ordinary experience.
  9. countableuncountableA special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
    • the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the York use; the Ordinariate use
  10. countableuncountableA slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
verb
  1. transitiveTo employ; to apply; to utilize.
    • Use this knife to slice the bread.
    • We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.
  2. oftentransitiveTo expend; to consume by employing.
    • I used the money they allotted me.
    • We should use up most of the fuel.
    • She used all the time allotted to complete the test.
  3. transitiveTo exploit.
    • You never cared about me; you just used me!
  4. transitiveTo consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
    • He uses cocaine.
    • I have never used drugs.
  5. intransitiveTo consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
    • Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.
  6. transitiveTo benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
    • I could use a drink.
    • My car could use a new coat of paint.
  7. transitiveTo suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
    • I use they/them pronouns.
  8. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
    • soldiers who are used to hardships and danger
    • to use the soldiers to hardships and danger
  9. obsoletereflexiveTo accustom oneself.
  10. intransitiveTo habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
    • I used to get things done.
  11. datedTo behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
    • to use an animal cruelly
  12. obsoletereflexiveTo behave, act, comport oneself.