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ARTIFACT

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

ARTIFACT is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

ARTIFACTS-s 11 ARTEFACT 11
noun
  1. USAn object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
  2. USAn object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
  3. USSomething viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
  4. USA finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
    • The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
  5. USAn object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
    • The dig produced many Roman artifacts.
  6. USAn appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
  7. USA perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm or of physical interference in an acquisition process.
    • This JPEG image has been so highly compressed that it has unsightly artifacts, making it unsuitable for the cover of our magazine.
    • The opacity in his chest radiograph turned out to be an artifact due to the film.
  8. USabbreviationellipsisEllipsis of build artifact.
  9. USAny object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.