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Is detective a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word detective is a Scrabble US word. The word detective is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is detective a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word detective is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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Is detective a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word detective is a Words With Friends word. The word detective is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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9-letter words (1 found)

DETECTIVE,

7-letter words (5 found)

DECEIVE,EVICTED,EVICTEE,VEDETTE,VIDETTE,

6-letter words (6 found)

DECEIT,DECTET,DETECT,DEVICE,EVITED,VETTED,

5-letter words (9 found)

CITED,CIVET,DEEVE,DEICE,EDICT,EVICT,EVITE,TICED,VICED,

4-letter words (31 found)

CEDE,CEDI,CETE,CIDE,CITE,CIVE,DEET,DEEV,DEVI,DICE,DICT,DIET,DITE,DITT,DIVE,EDIT,EIDE,ETIC,EVET,ICED,IDEE,TEED,TETE,TICE,TIDE,TIED,TITE,VICE,VIDE,VIED,VITE,

3-letter words (24 found)

CEE,CID,CIT,DEE,DEI,DEV,DIE,DIT,DIV,EVE,ICE,IDE,TEC,TED,TEE,TET,TIC,TID,TIE,TIT,VEE,VET,VID,VIE,

2-letter words (9 found)

DE,DI,ED,EE,ET,ID,IT,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 86 words from detective according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of detective

detective

Etymology

Ellipsis of detective police.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈtɛktɪv/
  • Rhymes: -ɛktɪv

Noun

detective (plural detectives)

  1. (law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
  2. A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
    • 1887 Dec., Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet", Beeton's Christmas Annual, pp. 12–3:
      Sherlock Holmes remarked calmly... "Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I'm a consulting detective, if you can understand what that means. Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent. They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight. There is a strong family resemblence about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first."
    • 2013 March 25, David Sedaris, "Long Way Home" in The New Yorker:
      Had they responded this way in France or America, this wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows. Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hetty Wainthropp, Inspector George Gently: they come from every class and corner of the country. There’s even Edith Pargeter's Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk who solved crimes in twelfth-century Shrewsbury. No surveillance cameras, no fingerprints, not even a telephone, and still he cracked every case that came his way.

Synonyms

  • (law enforcement): DT (abbreviation), Det (abbreviation), Det. (abbreviation)
  • (person employed to find information): private detective, private investigator
  • (person employed to find information): (slang) dick, private dick, gumshoe
  • sleuth

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Adjective

detective (not comparable)

  1. Employed in detecting.

Asturian

Noun

detective m or f (plural detectives)

  1. detective

Galician

Noun

detective m (plural detectives)

  1. detective

Further reading

  • “detective” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Noun

detective m (plural detectives)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of detetive. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English detective.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deteɡˈtibe/ [d̪e.t̪eɣ̞ˈt̪i.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -ibe
  • Syllabification: de‧tec‧ti‧ve

Noun

detective m or f by sense (plural detectives, feminine detective or detectiva, feminine plural detectives or detectivas)

  1. detective

Usage notes

  • detective may be masculine or feminine, but the less common detectiva exists for female detectives as well.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “detective”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org