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SENTINEL

8 letters

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

SENTINEL 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

SENTINELS-s 11 CENTINEL 11 SENTINELING-ing 11 SENTINELLING-ling 11 SENTINELED-ed 11 SENTINELLED-led 11
noun
  1. A sentry, watch, or guard.
  2. obsoleteA private soldier.
  3. A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
    • The <xmp> tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally
  4. A sentinel crab.
  5. attributiveA sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
    • sentinel animals can be used to explore endemic diseases.
verb
  1. transitiveTo watch over as a guard.
    • He sentineled the north wall.
  2. transitiveTo post a guard for.
    • He sentineled the north wall with just one man.