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DECOYED

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What DECOYED Means

DECOYED is a form of DECOY, which means:

  1. noun: a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
  2. noun: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
  3. verb: lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DECOYED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 C3 O1 Y4 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In DECOYED

44 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 (5)

4 letter words (13)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (9)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.