What does SEARCH mean?
- Pronunciation
- /sɜrtʃ/
- Letters
- 6
- Scrabble score
- 11
- Words With Friends score
- 11
- How common
- Common
Meaning
verb
- try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of“The police are searching for clues”
- search or seek“We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest”
- inquire into“the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project”
- subject to a search“The police searched the suspect”
noun
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an investigation seeking answers“a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing”
- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property“they wrote a program to do a table lookup”
- the examination of alternative hypotheses“his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful”
Definitions from Princeton WordNet 3.0.
Other forms
searched14searches13
Anagrams of SEARCH
arches11chaser11chares11eschar11
Words inside SEARCH
82 shorter words can be made from these letters. Here are the most useful.
Related
Questions
Is SEARCH a valid word in word games?
SEARCH is in the ENABLE word list, which many word games use, so it is very likely to be accepted. Check your game's own dictionary if a play is challenged.
How many points is SEARCH worth?
SEARCH is worth 11 points with Scrabble letter values and 11 with Words With Friends values, before any bonus squares.
What words can you make from SEARCH?
82 other words, including AS, ARE, HE and HAS.