What DEBASES Means
DEBASES is a form of DEBASE, which means:
- verb: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality“debauch the young people with wine and women”
- verb: lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DEBASES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 B3 A1 S1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of DEBASES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DEBASES
79 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 (4)
5 letter words (17)
4 letter words (25)
3 letter words (21)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.