What DESPERATE Means
- adjective: arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope“a despairing view of the world situation”
- adjective: desperately determined“do-or-die revolutionaries”
- noun: a person who is frightened and in need of help“they prey on the hopes of the desperate”
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DESPERATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 S1 P3 E1 R1 A1 T1 E1.
Anagrams of DESPERATE (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DESPERATE
473 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 (10)
7 letter words (30)
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6 letter words (79)
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5 letter words (151)
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4 letter words (120)
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3 letter words (64)
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2 letter words (19)
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