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DECIMATES

9 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What DECIMATES Means

DECIMATES is a form of DECIMATE, which means:

  1. verb: kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
  2. verb: kill in large numbers“the plague wiped out an entire population”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DECIMATES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 C3 I1 M3 A1 T1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of DECIMATES (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In DECIMATES

477 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.

8 letter words (6)

7 letter words (17)

6 letter words (59)

5 letter words (128)

4 letter words (159)

3 letter words (82)

2 letter words (26)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.