What DERIVES Means
DERIVES is a form of DERIVE, which means:
- verb: reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- verb: obtain“derive pleasure from one's garden”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DERIVES 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 R1 I1 V4 E1 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 DERIVES (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DERIVES
141 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 (17)
5 letter words (36)
4 letter words (49)
3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.