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DECEPTIVE

9 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What DECEPTIVE Means

  1. adjective: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true“deceptive calm”
  2. adjective: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently“the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DECEPTIVE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 C3 E1 P3 T1 I1 V4 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In DECEPTIVE

106 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

7 letter words (5)

6 letter words (7)

5 letter words (14)

4 letter words (37)

3 letter words (32)

2 letter words (11)

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