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DETECTORS

9 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What DETECTORS Means

DETECTORS is a form of DETECTOR, which means:

  1. 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
  2. noun: rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DETECTORS 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 O1 R1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In DETECTORS

355 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.

8 letter words (8)

7 letter words (16)

6 letter words (55)

5 letter words (102)

4 letter words (104)

3 letter words (54)

2 letter words (16)

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