What EXCAVATE Means
- verb: recover through digging“Schliemann excavated Troy”
- verb: find by digging in the ground“I dug up an old box in the garden”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EXCAVATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 20 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 C3 A1 V4 A1 T1 E1.
Words Made From The Letters In EXCAVATE
53 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.
6 letter words (3)
5 letter words (3)
4 letter words (12)
3 letter words (25)
2 letter words (10)
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