booted
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When booted helps
Base Score
6
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
B D E O T
Two-Letter Start
BO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ED
Check this pattern late
- 6 letters
- 5 unique letters
- BO start
- ED ending
- repeated letters
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- booted is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include b, d, e, o, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (O x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ED ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the BO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily page.
verb
To kick.
"I booted the ball toward my teammate."
verb
To put boots on, especially for riding.
verb
To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
verb
To forcibly eject.
"We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible"
verb
To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
verb
To vomit.
"Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch."
verb
(criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
verb
To avail, benefit, profit.
verb
To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
verb
To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
"When arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine."
adjective
Wearing a boot or boots.
"a booted foot"
Related Words
Synonyms
- kick
- hoof
- bootup
- bootstrap
- start
Antonyms
- shutdown
- stop
- turnoff