What DEFEAT Means
- noun: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest“it was a narrow defeat”
- noun: the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- verb: win a victory over“You must overcome all difficulties”
- verb: thwart the passage of“kill a motion”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DEFEAT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 F4 E1 A1 T1.
Anagrams of DEFEAT (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DEFEAT
54 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.
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (15)
3 letter words (20)
2 letter words (14)
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