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DECIMATING

10 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What DECIMATING Means

DECIMATING 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

DECIMATING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 C3 I1 M3 A1 T1 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of DECIMATING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DECIMATING

501 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.

9 letter words (3)

8 letter words (10)

7 letter words (25)

6 letter words (89)

5 letter words (102)

4 letter words (148)

3 letter words (97)

2 letter words (27)

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