What DEFEATS Means
DEFEATS is a form of DEFEAT, which 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
DEFEATS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 F4 E1 A1 T1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of DEFEATS (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DEFEATS
138 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 (11)
5 letter words (28)
4 letter words (44)
3 letter words (38)
2 letter words (17)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.