Strobes

What it means

1. (noun) A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
2. (noun) An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read. “a memory strobe; a data strobe”
3. (verb) To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.

Letter analysis

• Strobes contains 7 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
• It uses 6 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 2.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 9.

Anagram plays

• sorbets

Sub-words

• sorbets
• besots
• sobers
• sorbet
• sorest
• stores
• strobe
• besot
• bests
• bores
• rests
• robes
• roses
• sober
• sores
• sorts
• store
• tress
• best
• bets
• bore
• boss
• orbs
• ores
• rest
• robe
• robs
• roes
• rose
• rote
• rots
• sets
• sobs
• sore
• sort
• sots
• toes
• tore
• tors
• toss
• bet
• bot
• est
• orb
• ore
• rob
• roe
• rot
• rte
• set
• sob
• sos
• sot
• tbs
• toe
• tor

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• abetter
• abettor
• abiding
• ability
• abjured
• abjures
• abolish
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Words starting with STR

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• straddled
• straddles
• straddling
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• strafed
• strafes
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• straggle
• straggled
• straggler
• stragglers
• straggles
• stragglier
• straggliest
• straggling
• straggly
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Words ending with BES

• adobes
• ascribes
• babes
• bathrobes
• bribes
• circumscribes
• cubes
• describes
• diatribes
• disrobes
• earlobes
• flambes
• gibes
• globes
• grebes
• gybes
• imbibes
• inscribes

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