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ferret
noun
1. A black-footed ferret.
2. A narrow piece of tape used to bind or edge fabric.
3. A weasellike, usually albino mammal (Mustela putorius furo) related to the polecat and often trained to hunt rats or rabbits.
4. A domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal () that is descended from the European polecat.
5. An active and persistent searcher.
verb
1. To hunt with .
2. To search about.
3. To hunt (as rabbits) with ferrets.
4. To force out of hiding .
5. To find and bring to light by searching .
verb-intransitive
1. To engage in hunting with ferrets.
2. To search intensively.
verb-transitive
1. To drive out, as from a hiding place; expel.
2. To hound or harry persistently; worry.
3. To hunt (rabbits, for example) with ferrets.
4. To uncover and bring to light by searching. Often used with out: "Their work merely points the way for others to ferret out the core components of all proteins” ( Natalie Angier).
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Top Words by points |
Points |
Word Game |
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ferret | 9 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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er | 2 |
re | 2 |
te | 2 |
ef | 5 |
fe | 5 |
et | 2 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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err | 3 |
ere | 3 |
fee | 6 |
fer | 6 |
fet | 6 |
eft | 6 |
tee | 3 |
ret | 3 |
ree | 3 |
ref | 6 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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tree | 4 |
rete | 4 |
reft | 7 |
reef | 7 |
tref | 7 |
fret | 7 |
free | 7 |
fete | 7 |
fere | 7 |
feet | 7 |
5 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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frere | 8 |
freer | 8 |
refer | 8 |
6 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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ferret | 9 |