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WAX

3 letters

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

WAX 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

WAXES-es 2 WAXING-ing 3 WAXED-ed 2 WEX 1 WOX 1 WAXEN-en 2

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

WAXINGS 5
noun
  1. countableuncountableBeeswax.
  2. countableuncountableEarwax.
    • What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
  3. countableuncountableAny oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
  4. countableuncountableAny preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
  5. informaluncountableThe phonograph record format for music.
  6. UScountabledialectaluncountableA thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
  7. UScountableslanguncountableAny of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
    • He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.
  8. rareuncountableThe process of growing.
  9. colloquialdatedAn outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
adjective
  1. Made of wax.
verb
  1. transitiveTo coat with wax or a similar material.
    • waxed silk
  2. intransitiveTo form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
  3. transitiveTo apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
  4. transitiveTo remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
  5. informaltransitiveTo defeat utterly.
  6. slangtransitiveTo kill, especially to murder a person.
  7. archaictransitiveusuallyTo record.
  8. intransitiveliteraryTo greaten.
  9. copulativeintransitiveliteraryTo increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
    • to wax poetic
    • to wax wode
    • to wax eloquent
  10. intransitiveTo appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
  11. intransitiveTo move from low tide to high tide.