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sentinel

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Is sentinel a Scrabble word?

Yes, sentinel is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of sentinel?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A private soldier.Examples: "“I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”"obsolete

2. (computer science) A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.Examples: "The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally"; "[…] a sentinel value that indicates a missing entry."

3. (attributive, medicine, epidemiology) A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).Examples: "sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases."attributive

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To watch over as a guard.Examples: "He sentineled the north wall."transitive

2. (transitive) To post a guard for.Examples: "He sentineled the north wall with just one man."; "The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]"transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "sentinel"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "sentinel"?

Scrabble
8 points
S1
E1
N1
T1
I1
N1
E1
L1
Words With Friends
11 points
S1
E1
N2
T1
I1
N2
E1
L2

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