What DEAF Means
- adjective: lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
- adjective: (usually followed by ‘to’) unwilling or refusing to pay heed“deaf to her warnings”
- noun: people who have severe hearing impairments“many of the deaf use sign language”
- verb: make or render deaf“a deafening noise”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DEAF is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 A1 F4.
Anagrams of DEAF (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DEAF
14 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 (5)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing DEAF
DEAF appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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