DEBILITATE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. DEBILITATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DEBILITATE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DEBILITATE is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DEBILITATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DEBILITATE scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in DEBILITATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DEBILITATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does DEBILITATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
formal
To make someone or something seriously weak, so that normal strength or function is lost.
Debilitate is heavier than tire or weaken: it points to a lasting loss of vigour, usually through illness, hardship or damage. The adjective debilitating is far more common in print than the bare verb.
How DEBILITATE is used
Debilitate is used in medical, economic and general formal writing, often with a disease or a crisis as the subject.
- A long fever can debilitate even the strongest athlete.
- Heavy debts continued to debilitate the small company.
- The drought threatened to debilitate the whole region.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DEBILITATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DEBILITATE
2 longer words begin with DEBILITATE.
Shorter words from the letters in DEBILITATE
Showing 40 of 315. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about DEBILITATE
- Is DEBILITATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DEBILITATE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DEBILITATE worth?
- DEBILITATE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DEBILITATE mean?
- To make someone or something seriously weak, so that normal strength or function is lost.
- What letters can be added to DEBILITATE?
- DEBILITATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of DEBILITATE:
Open DEBILITATE in the Word Finder