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DERISION

8 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What DERISION Means

  1. noun: contemptuous laughter
  2. noun: the act of deriding or treating with contempt

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DERISION is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 R1 I1 S1 I1 O1 N1.

Anagrams of DERISION (3)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DERISION

279 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 (16)

6 letter words (32)

5 letter words (65)

4 letter words (86)

3 letter words (58)

2 letter words (22)

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