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WANTS

5 letters

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

WANTS 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.

WANTS root WANT-s

Word family

WANT 1 WANTING-ing 5 WANTED-ed 3

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WANTINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
    • I want you as a friend, not a foe.
    • What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.
  2. broadlytransitiveTo make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
    • The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
    • Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
  3. transitiveTo wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
    • Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
    • Danish police want him for embezzlement.
  4. intransitiveTo desire (to experience desire); to wish.
    • You can leave if you want.
  5. colloquialusuallyTo be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
    • You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
  6. colloquialtransitiveTo lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
    • That chair wants fixing and a clean.
    • What you really want is a good smack!
  7. archaictransitiveTo have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
  8. datedintransitiveTo be lacking or deficient or absent.
    • There was something wanting in the play.
  9. datedintransitiveTo be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
    • The paupers desperately want.
  10. archaictransitiveTo lack and be without, to not have (something).
    • She wanted anything she needed.
  11. broadlyobsoletetransitiveTo lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
  12. To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
    • Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!
noun
  1. countableA desire, wish, longing.
  2. countableLack, absence, deficiency.
    • She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
  3. uncountablePoverty.
  4. countableuncountableSomething needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
  5. UKcountableuncountableA depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
  6. dialectalA mole (Talpa europea).