DILUTES Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What DILUTES Means

DILUTES is a form of DILUTE, which means:

verb: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture“cut bourbon”
verb: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones“adulterate liquor”
adjective: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity“diluted alcohol”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DILUTES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 I1 L1 U1 T1 E1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of DILUTES (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

DUELIST

Words Made From The Letters In DILUTES

194 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)

DELIST DILUTE DUTIES IDLEST LISTED LUSTED SILTED STILED SUITED SUTILE TILDES

5 letter words (45)

4 letter words (76)

3 letter words (46)

DEI DEL DIE DIS DIT DUE DUI EDS ELD ELS ELT EST IDE IDS ITS LED LEI LES LET LEU LID LIE LIS LIT LUD SED SEI SEL SET SIT SUD SUE SUI TED TEL TES TID TIE TIL TIS TUI UDS ULE USE UTE UTS

2 letter words (16)

DE DI ED EL ES ET ID IS IT LI SI ST TE TI US UT

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.

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