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WOULD

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

WOULD 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.

Word family

WOULDS-s 3
verb
  1. auxiliaryUsed to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
    • On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.
    • Hi! I thought I'd come over and introduce myself. My name’s Chema.
    • I'm really flattered you would call your daughter after me.
    • They thought anything Elvis did would sell, but that was not true.
  2. auxiliaryUsed to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)
  3. auxiliaryWas or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
  4. archaicauxiliaryWanted to.
  5. archaicauxiliaryUsed with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
  6. auxiliaryobsoleteWished, desired (something).
  7. auxiliaryUsed as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
    • If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.
    • I'd never do anything that went against my conscience.
  8. auxiliaryWithout explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
    • I would love to come and visit.
    • Look at that yummy cake! I would eat that all up!
    • Most other people would do it differently, helping anybody who was in trouble, whether they knew them or not.
  9. auxiliarySuggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
    • I would ask you all to sit down.
    • I would imagine that they have already left.
    • I would say/think we would/might do better to catch the earlier flight.
  10. auxiliaryUsed to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
  11. auxiliaryUsed to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
    • She looked as if she would be sick.
    • He's very security-conscious, so he would have remembered to lock the door.
    • They would be arriving in London round about now.
  12. auxiliaryCould naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
    • Sorry, officer, I wouldn't know anything about the crime, since I was nowhere near the scene.
  13. auxiliaryUsed interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
    • Would you pass the salt, please?
    • Just reach me down that file, would you.
  14. archaicauxiliaryMight wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
  15. archaicauxiliaryMight desire; wish (something).
noun
  1. Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
interjection
  1. abbreviationellipsisidiomaticslangEllipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.