What DEAD Means
- adjective: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life“the nerve is dead”
- adjective: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat“Mars is a dead planet”
- noun: people who are no longer living“they buried the dead”
- noun: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense“the dead of winter”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DEAD is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 A1 D2.
Words Made From The Letters In DEAD
9 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.
3 letter words (3)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing DEAD
DEAD appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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