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WORK

4 letters

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

WORK 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

WORKS-s 2 WORKING-ing 5 WORKED-ed 3 WROUGHT 5

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WORKFUL 5 WORKINGS 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableLabour, occupation, job.
    • My work involves a lot of travel.
  2. countableuncountableThe place where one is employed.
    • He hasn’t come home yet; he’s still at work.
  3. broadlycountableuncountableOne's employer.
    • I want to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work will give me the time off.
  4. countabledateduncountableA factory; a works.
  5. countableuncountableEffort expended on a particular task.
    • Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
  6. countableuncountableSustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
    • We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
    • We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
  7. countableuncountableSomething on which effort is expended.
    • There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
  8. countableeuphemisticuncountableCosmetic surgery.
    • has had a lot of work done
  9. countableslanguncountablePrison gang violence.
    • putting in work
  10. countableuncountableA measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
    • Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
  11. broadlycountableuncountableA measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
  12. oftenuncountableThe result of a particular manner of production.
    • There's a lot of guesswork involved.
  13. oftenuncountableSomething produced using the specified material or tool.
    • We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
  14. countableA literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
    • It is a work of art.
    • the poetic works of Alexander Pope
  15. countableA fortification.
    • William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
  16. slanguncountableThe staging of events to appear as real.
  17. countableuncountableOre before it is dressed.
  18. countablepluralslanguncountableThe equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
    • Tell me you're using clean works at least.
  19. countableuncountableThe confident attitude of a drag queen.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
    • He's working in a bar.
  2. intransitiveSaid of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
    • I work in a national park.
    • She works in the human resources department.
    • He mostly works in logging but sometimes works in carpentry too.
  3. intransitiveSaid of one's job title [with as].
    • I work as a cleaner.
  4. intransitiveSaid of a company or individual who employs [with for].
    • She works for Microsoft.
    • He works for the President.
  5. intransitiveGeneral use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
    • I work closely with my Canadian counterparts.
    • You work with computers, right?
    • She works with the homeless people from the suburbs.
  6. intransitivetransitiveTo be employed or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
    • She works the night clubs.
    • The salesman works the Midwest.
  7. intransitivetransitiveTo be employed or operate in, through, or by means of.
    • She's working the phones.
  8. intransitiveTo behave in a certain way when handled
    • This dough does not work easily.
    • The soft metal works well.
  9. intransitiveTo function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
    • He pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?
    • He looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work.
    • My plan didn't work.
  10. intransitiveTo be appealing; to be approved of.
    • The chef's steak frites just didn't work for me.
    • That shirt doesn't work on her.
  11. ditransitiveintransitivepoeticTo cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
  12. intransitiveobsoleteTo hurt; to ache.
  13. intransitiveslangtransitiveTo pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
    • I would have never thought those pieces would go together, but she is working it like nobody's business.
  14. intransitiveTo perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
  15. transitiveTo set into action.
    • He worked the levers.
  16. transitiveTo exhaust, by working.
    • The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
  17. transitiveTo shape, form, or improve a material.
    • He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
  18. transitiveTo provoke or excite; to influence.
    • The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
  19. transitiveTo use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
    • She knows how to work the system.
  20. transitiveTo cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
    • I cannot work a miracle.
  21. transitiveTo force or compel to work.
    • He is working his servants hard.
  22. figurativelyintransitivetransitiveTo influence.
    • They worked on her to join the group.
  23. transitiveTo use intensely and successfully.
    • He worked that basketball like a boss!
  24. intransitiveTo move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
    • to work into the earth
  25. transitiveTo move or progress slowly [with one's way].
    • He worked his way through the crowd.
    • The dye worked its way through.
  26. transitiveTo cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
    • Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.
  27. intransitiveTo move in an agitated manner.
    • His fingers worked with tension.
    • A ship works in a heavy sea.
  28. intransitiveTo ferment.
  29. transitiveTo cause to ferment.
  30. transitiveTo embroider with thread.