What DEPARTS Means
DEPARTS is a form of DEPART, which means:
- verb: move away from a place into another direction“Go away before I start to cry”
- verb: be at variance with; be out of line with
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DEPARTS 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 P3 A1 R1 T1 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 DEPARTS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DEPARTS
289 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 (29)
5 letter words (91)
4 letter words (93)
3 letter words (58)
2 letter words (18)
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