Bilges
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
The enclosed spaces between the frames at the lowest inner sides of a ship's hull where water tends to accumulate.
“The engineer checked the bilges every morning to ensure the automatic pump was keeping them dry.”
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Ends in -LGES, an unusual cluster, I and E provide two vowel positions to confirm early in Wordle
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Worth 9 points, a modest score but a valid nautical plural worth memorising for Scrabble dictionaries
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