agent: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 6 letter points · starts with A · ends with T
Meaning of agent
noun
One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to act on behalf of or in behalf of another, such as to transact business for them.
Example: He worked as an agent for the government.
A person who looks for work for another person and brokers a deal between the hiree and hirer.
Someone who works for an intelligence agency: whether an officer or employee thereof or anyone else who agrees to help their efforts (for ideology, for money, as blackmailee, or otherwise).
Listed forms: agents.
Source: Wiktionary — agent.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for agent.
noun
a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
noun
any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
- federal agent
noun
the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- agentive role
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is agent in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of agent
A(1) + G(2) + E(1) + N(1) + T(1) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of agent
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from agent
34 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in agent. Showing up to 24, longest first.