What DECEIVE Means
- verb: be false to; be dishonest with
- verb: cause someone to believe an untruth“The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DECEIVE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 C3 E1 I1 V4 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In DECEIVE
35 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 (1)
5 letter words (3)
4 letter words (13)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (5)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.