Boggle Word Finder
WYE
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
1
pts
Big
too short
(min 4)
(min 4)
Super Big
too short
(min 4)
(min 4)
WYE 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).
noun
- The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.
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A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
- A wye is used to split a single line [hose or cable] into two lines.
- By going around the wye, a train can change direction.
verb
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transitiveTo make something into a wye (letter Y) shape.
- When a hose line is divided into two or more lines, these lines are known as wyed lines.
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transitiveTo reverse the direction of a train using a wye.
- Since the train didn't have a control cab at the other end, they wyed the train to turn it around for the trip back to the city.
- Committee contend that when these trains are wyed at Springfield, the road passenger crews are performing yard work at that point to eliminate switching by yard crews.