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SCANS

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

SCANS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

SCANS root SCAN-s

Word family

SCAN 1 SCANNING-ning 11 SCANNED-ned 5

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

SCANNINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
    • She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.
    • He scanned the horizon.
  2. transitiveTo inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
    • to scan the hard drive for errors
  3. transitiveTo look about for; to look over quickly.
  4. transitiveTo perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
  5. transitiveTo create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
    • to scan a photograph
    • to scan internal organs by means of computed tomography
    • Pencil drawings don't scan very well.
  6. transitiveTo read with an electronic device.
    • to scan a barcode
    • to scan a QR code
  7. obsoletetransitiveTo mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
  8. transitiveTo read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
  9. intransitiveTo conform to a metrical structure.
noun
  1. Of written things, a careful reading.
  2. Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
  3. An instance of scanning.
    • The operators vacated the room during the scan.
  4. The result or output of a scanning process.
    • The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
  5. A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.