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WAVE

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

WAVE is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

WAVES-s 2 WAVING 3 WAVED-d 2

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WAVINGS 5
verb
  1. intransitiveTo move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
    • The flag waved in the gentle breeze.
  2. intransitiveTo move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
  3. metonymicallytransitiveTo call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
    • I waved goodbye from across the room.
  4. intransitiveTo have an undulating or wavy form.
  5. transitiveTo raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
  6. transitiveTo style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.
  7. intransitiveTo swing and miss at a pitch.
    • Jones waves at strike one.
  8. transitiveTo cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
    • The starter waved the flag to begin the race.
  9. metonymicallytransitiveTo signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  10. intransitiveobsoleteTo fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  11. ergativeintransitiveTo move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  12. To generate a wave.
  13. obsoleteObsolete spelling of waive.
noun
  1. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
    • The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore.
  2. poeticThe ocean.
  3. A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
    • Gravity waves, while predicted by theory for decades, have been notoriously difficult to detect.
  4. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
    • Her hair had a nice wave to it.
    • sine wave
  5. Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
  6. A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
    • He dismissed her with a wave of the hand.
  7. figurativelyA sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
    • A wave of shoppers stampeded through the door when the store opened for its Christmas discount special.
    • A wave of retirees began moving to the coastal area.
    • A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
  8. Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
  9. figurativelyA movement or trend in popular culture.
    • New Wave
    • Korean Wave
  10. broadlyOne of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
  11. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.