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WEAK

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

WEAK 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

WEAKER-er 3 WEAKEST-est 5

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

WEAKLY 3 WEAKNESS 11 WEAKNESSES 11
adjective
  1. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
    • The child was too weak to move the boulder.
    • They easily guessed his weak computer password.
  2. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
    • a weak timber; a weak rope
  3. Limp, soft.
  4. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
    • weak resolutions; weak virtue
  5. oftenHaving a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
  6. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
    • We were served stale bread and weak tea.
  7. Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense marked by /-d-/, /-t-/, or /-ð-/.
    • The verb to walk is weak because it has a past tense of walked and all forms are inflected by adding the typical suffix (ie is regular) to the stem walk- (ie has no vowel changes).
    • The verb to run is strong, not weak, because the past tense is ran.
    • The verb to be is neither weak nor strong, instead it is highly irregular in all inflections; its third person present tense is is instead of *bes (which can even be seen in this very sentence) and its past tense is was or were instead of *bed or *beed or anything similar, just to name a few of its inflections.
  8. Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
  9. Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
  10. Related to, containing, or being a consonant which is prone to disappearing in some inflections, in most applicable languages including (but not limited to) w and y.
    • In some Semitic languages such as Akkadian, some or all gutturals are weak and often disappear, but in others such as Arabic and Ugaritic, they are strong and never disappear.
    • The reflexes of the Proto-Semitic verb *mawut- (“to die”) are often weak due to the presence of w, for example: Arabic مَاتَ (māta), Hebrew מֵת (mēṯ), and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎚 (mt /⁠māta⁠/).
  11. Related to, being, or containing the lenis consonant gradation, which resulted from historically closed syllables.
    • The Finnish verb kääntää (“to translate”) inflects to the singular imperative as käännä, showing the weak gradation nt > nn because it historically ended in a consonant which closed the syllable.
  12. especiallyOf a form in which the accent tends to shift forwards (to the right, in transcription) or did so ancestrally in Proto-Indo-European, relative to the strong stem (which has the leftmost accent allowed).
    • The PIE zero grade was most often found in weak stems, such as in *mn̥téys (“of thought, from thinking”, genitive/ablative singular of *méntis) and *mn̥yóh₂er (“I am thinking”). Over time it spread to strong stems, i.e. *mń̥tis, by processes of analogy and leveling. The full grade was persistent in the first syllable of reduplicated stative verbs: strong *tetórph₂e (“I am satisfied”), weak *tetr̥pmé (“we all are satisfied”), though for some verbs such as *pí-ph₃-e- (“to drink”) there was an unusual i-grade which may have lacked any distinct weak counterpart.
  13. especiallyIn a grammatical case other than nominative, accusative, vocative or sometimes locative singular.
  14. especiallyIn a conjugation other than singular active forms (regardless of person, tense etc.).
    • All middle forms of Indo-European verbs are traditionally weak. Middle-only verbs can still be compared to hypothetical strong stems, such as weak *ǵn̥h₁-yé- (e.g. *ǵn̥h₁yéto, “(he/she/it) was born”) versus strong *ǵénh₁-ye-.
  15. Lenis, pronounced with less force or less markedness.
  16. That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
    • a weak acid
    • a weak base
    • When we say that an acid is weak, we refer only to its degree of dissociation, not to its degree of corrosiveness; but it is true that those two traits often correlate, though.
  17. One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
  18. slangBad or uncool.
    • This place is weak.
  19. Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
  20. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
  21. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
    • The prosecution advanced a weak case.
  22. Lacking in vigour or expression.
    • a weak sentence; a weak style
  23. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
  24. Tending towards lower prices.
    • a weak market; wheat is weak at present
  25. Lacking contrast.
    • a weak negative