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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a police officer who investigates crimes
noun an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
originThe adjective is from Classical Latin dētēct-, past participial stem of dētegō (“to detect”), + -ive. The noun is an ellipsis of detective policeman, detective officer, or a similar construction. By surface analysis, detect + -ive.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- deceive 13
- evicted 13
- evictee 12
- device 12
- vedette 11
- vidette 11
- viced 11
- evited 10
- vetted 10
- civet 10
- evict 10
- deceit 9