What DETECTOR Means
- noun: any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
- noun: rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DETECTOR is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 T1 E1 C3 T1 O1 R1.
Anagrams of DETECTOR (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DETECTOR
127 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.
7 letter words (2)
6 letter words (11)
5 letter words (24)
CEDERCEREDCODERCOREDCOTEDCREDOCREEDDECORDETERDOREEDOTERERECTERODEOCTETOTTERRECTOROTEDROTTETERCETORTETOTEDTOTERTREEDTRODE
4 letter words (44)
CEDECERECEROCERTCETECODECOEDCORDCORECOTECOTTCREDCREEDECODEERDEETDEREDERODOERDOREDORTDOTEDREEECODEREDREDEREDOREEDRETERODEROEDROTETEEDTEERTETETOEDTORCTORETORTTOTETREETRETTRODTROT
3 letter words (34)
CEECODCORCOTDEEDOCDOEDORDOTECOEREODEORCORDOREORTRECREDREEREORETROCRODROEROTTECTEDTEETETTOCTODTOETORTOT
2 letter words (12)
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