What DECREES Means
DECREES is a form of DECREE, which means:
- verb: issue a decree“The King only can decree”
- verb: decide with authority“The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed”
- noun: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)“a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DECREES 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 C3 R1 E1 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 DECREES (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DECREES
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 (10)
5 letter words (18)
4 letter words (19)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.