What DESCEND Means
- verb: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way“The temperature is going down”
- verb: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example“She was descended from an old Italian noble family”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DESCEND is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 S1 C3 E1 N1 D2.
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 DESCEND (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DESCEND
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.
6 letter words (3)
5 letter words (12)
4 letter words (19)
3 letter words (14)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.