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YIELD

5 letters

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

YIELD 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

YIELDS-s 3 YIELDING-ing 11 YIELDED-ed 5 YOLD 1

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

YIELDINGS 11 YIELDINGLY 11
verb
  1. To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
    • This method generally yields better results.
    • The new variety of potatoes yields 20% more.
  2. To produce as return from an investment.
    • Historically, that security yields a high return.
  3. To produce as a result.
    • Adding 3 and 4 yields a result of 7.
  4. To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
    • Indo-European p- yields Germanic f-.
  5. obsoleteTo give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  6. intransitivetransitiveTo give as demanded; to relinquish.
    • They refuse to yield to the enemy.
    • Eventually she stopped arguing and yielded the point.
  7. USespeciallyintransitivetransitiveTo give way so as to allow another to pass first.
    • Yield the right of way to pedestrians.
    • It is not clear from the road markings who is supposed to yield at the junction.
  8. intransitiveTo give way under force; to succumb to a force.
    • I put my shoulder into the door, but it did not yield.
  9. intransitiveOf a running thread or process: to give control back to the parent program or operating system so that other threads or processes can be allowed to run.
    • The system froze because the buggy program got into an infinite loop and didn't yield.
  10. To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
  11. rareTo admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
noun
  1. countableuncountableA product.
  2. countableuncountableMeasurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
    • Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.
  3. countableuncountableThe harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
  4. countableuncountableThe amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
  5. countableuncountableThe volume of water escaping from a spring.
  6. countableuncountableThe explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
  7. countableuncountableProfit earned from an investment; return on investment.
  8. countableuncountableThe current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
  9. countablematerialuncountableyield strength of a material.
  10. countableuncountableThe situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
  11. countabledialectalobsoleteuncountablePayment; money; tribute.