What DEFICIT Means
- noun: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required“new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit”
- noun: a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning“the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DEFICIT 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 F4 I1 C3 I1 T1.
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 DEFICIT
57 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 (2)
5 letter words (6)
4 letter words (17)
3 letter words (21)
2 letter words (11)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.