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DESPOILS

8 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What DESPOILS Means

DESPOILS is a form of DESPOIL, which means:

  1. verb: steal goods; take as spoils“During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
  2. verb: destroy and strip of its possession“The soldiers raped the beautiful country”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DESPOILS 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 S1 P3 O1 I1 L1 S1.

Anagrams of DESPOILS (2)

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

Words Made From The Letters In DESPOILS

308 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)

6 letter words (38)

5 letter words (82)

4 letter words (99)

3 letter words (58)

2 letter words (21)

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