DECLINES Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What DECLINES Means

DECLINES is a form of DECLINE, which means:

verb: grow worse“Conditions in the slum worsened”
verb: not accept as true“He refused to accept what she said”
noun: change toward something smaller or lower
noun: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DECLINES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 C3 L1 I1 N1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of DECLINES (2)

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

LICENSED SILENCED

Words Made From The Letters In DECLINES

242 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 (10)

DECILES DECLINE DELICES ENISLED ENSILED INCEDES LICENSE LINSEED SELENIC SILENCE

6 letter words (32)

CEILED CENSED CIELED CLINES DECILE DEICES DELICE DENIES DESINE DIENES DIESEL EDENIC EDILES ELDINS ELIDES ENISLE ENSILE INCEDE INCLES LENSED NEELDS NELIES NIECES SCENED SEDILE SEIDEL SEILED SEINED SENILE SIECLE SILENE SLICED

5 letter words (60)

4 letter words (82)

3 letter words (45)

CEE CEL CID CIS DEE DEI DEL DEN DIE DIN DIS EDS EEL EEN ELD ELS END ENE ENS ICE IDE IDS INS LED LEE LEI LES LID LIE LIN LIS NED NEE NID NIE NIL NIS SEC SED SEE SEI SEL SEN SIC SIN

2 letter words (13)

DE DI ED EE EL EN ES ID IN IS LI NE SI

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

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