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DETECTED

8 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What DETECTED Means

  1. adjective: perceived or discerned“the detected micrometeoritic material”
  2. adjective: perceived with the mind“he winced at the detected flicker of irony in her voice”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DETECTED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 T1 E1 C3 T1 E1 D2.

Words Made From The Letters In DETECTED

20 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (2)

5 letter words (1)

4 letter words (6)

3 letter words (6)

2 letter words (5)

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