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POLICE

6 letters

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

POLICE 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

POLICES-s 5 POLICING 11 POLICED-d 5

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

POLICER 5 POLICERS 11 POLICINGS 11
noun
  1. pluralA constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
    • Call the police!
    • Police! help! Police! help!
  2. CanadaUShistoricalpluralA department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
    • The Cook County Sheriff's Department has jurisdiction across most of Chicago but focuses on the unincorporated area and tasks like prisoner transport, leaving the rest to the Chicago Police Department.
  3. UKpluralA branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
    • Scotland Yard is, technically speaking, only the metropolitan police for Greater London but because of their importance they have special jurisdiction for some crimes across the United Kingdom.
  4. AustraliapluralAny of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
  5. pluralusuallyThe staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
  6. derogatoryfigurativelyironicmildlypluralusuallyPeople who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
    • Who called the fashion police?
  7. pluralslangCleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
  8. archaicpluralSynonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.
  9. alternativeobsoletepluralAlternative form of policy.
  10. alternativeobsoletepluralAlternative form of polity, civilization, a regulated community.
verb
  1. transitiveTo enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
    • Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
  2. ambitransitiveslangTo clean up an area.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo enforce norms or standards upon.