device: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 12 letter points · starts with D · ends with E
Meaning of device
noun
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
- Ireland
An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
Listed forms: devices.
Source: Wiktionary — device.
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Synonyms by meaning
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noun
any clever maneuver
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is device in our word lists?
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of device
D(2) + E(1) + V(4) + I(1) + C(3) + E(1) = 12 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 device
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from device
24 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in device. Showing up to 24, longest first.