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DOCTOR

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

DOCTOR is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

DOCTORS-s 5 DOCTORING-ing 11 DOCTORED-ed 11

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

DOCTORAL 11 DOCTORLY 11 DOCTORATE 11 DOCTORATED 11 DOCTORATES 11 DOCTORATING 11
noun
  1. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK.
    • If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
  2. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
  3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
  4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  5. obsoleteA teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
  6. datedAny mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
  7. A fish, the friar skate.
  8. obsoleteA witchdoctor.
  9. obsoleteslangA ship's cook.
verb
  1. transitiveTo act as a medical doctor to.
    • Her children doctored her back to health.
  2. humorousintransitiveTo act as a medical doctor.
  3. transitiveTo make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
  4. transitiveTo physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
    • They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
    • We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
  5. transitiveTo genetically alter an extant species.
    • Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
  6. figurativelytransitiveTo alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
    • To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
  7. transitiveTo adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
  8. intransitiveobsoleteTo take medicine.