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COLLECTS

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

COLLECTS 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.

COLLECTS root COLLECT-s

verb
  1. transitiveTo gather together; amass.
    • Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
    • The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
  2. transitiveTo get; particularly, get from someone.
    • A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
  3. transitiveTo accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
    • John Henry collects stamps.
    • I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
    • My friend from school has started to collects mangas and novels recently
  4. transitiveTo pick up or fetch
    • Can you collect me from the airport?
  5. archaictransitiveTo form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
  6. intransitiveTo collect payments.
    • He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
  7. intransitiveTo come together in a group or mass.
    • The rain collected in puddles.
  8. transitiveTo infer; to conclude.
  9. transitiveTo collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
    • The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
adjective
  1. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
    • It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
adverb
  1. With payment due from the recipient.
    • I had to call collect.
noun
  1. capitalizedsometimesThe prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
    • He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.