What DECADES Means
DECADES is a form of DECADE, which means:
- noun: a period of 10 years
- noun: the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DECADES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 C3 A1 D2 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In DECADES
66 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 (14)
4 letter words (21)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.