tutelar

Plural: tutelars

Adjective Satellite

providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
- "tutelary gods"

Adj

Serving as a guardian; protective; tutelary.

Noun

A guardian or protector; often a spirit or deity.
One that is tutelary.

Examples

He felt his word-game TUTELAR was guiding his hand to the perfect seven-letter word.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin tūtelāris, from tūtēla (“tutelage, guardianship; dependent, client”) + -āris (suffix used to form an adjective, usually from a noun, indicating a relationship or a pertaining to).

Synonyms

custodial, tutelary, guardian, protective, protector, tutelaric

Scrabble Score: 7

tutelar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
tutelar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tutelar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

tutelar: valid Words With Friends Word