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DEVOLVED

8 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What DEVOLVED Means

DEVOLVED is a form of DEVOLVE, which means:

  1. verb: pass on or delegate to another“The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital”
  2. verb: be inherited by“The estate fell to my sister”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DEVOLVED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 V4 O1 L1 V4 E1 D2.

Words Made From The Letters In DEVOLVED

61 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 (2)

6 letter words (4)

5 letter words (8)

4 letter words (18)

3 letter words (21)

2 letter words (8)

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