OPERATIVE

What OPERATIVE Means

1. adjective: being in force or having or exerting force“operative regulations”
2. adjective: relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine“a surgical appendix”
3. noun: a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
4. noun: someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OPERATIVE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 P3 E1 R1 A1 T1 I1 V4 E1.

Anagrams of OPERATIVE (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In OPERATIVE

309 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 (1)

7 letter words (10)

6 letter words (22)

5 letter words (76)

4 letter words (97)

3 letter words (80)

2 letter words (23)

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