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WRESTING

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

WRESTING is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

WRESTING root WREST-ing

Word family

WREST 2 WRESTS-s 3 WRESTED-ed 5
verb
  1. transitiveTo pull or twist violently.
  2. transitiveTo obtain by pulling or violent force.
    • He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo seize.
  4. figurativelytransitiveTo distort, to pervert, to twist.
  5. transitiveTo tune with a wrest, or key.
noun
  1. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
  2. A key to tune a stringed instrument.
  3. obsoleteActive or motive power.
  4. abbreviationellipsisobsoleterareEllipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
  5. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
  6. dateddialectalA metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.