DEFATTED is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. DEFATTED is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 13 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DEFATTED?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DEFATTED is to know. It scores 13 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DEFATTED
No single letter turns DEFATTED into another word.
How DEFATTED scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in DEFATTED, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 2 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so DEFATTED has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about DEFATTED
- DEFATTED begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DEFATTED mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Having had the fat taken out, as a food or tissue sample.
Food makers sell defatted flours and powders when they want a lighter product that keeps better. Laboratories also defatted samples so that fat does not disturb a measurement.
How DEFATTED is used
Usually placed before a noun such as flour, meal or tissue in cooking and laboratory writing.
- The recipe calls for defatted soy flour.
- A defatted sample was weighed before testing.
- Shoppers compared defatted peanut powder with the regular kind.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DEFATTED and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in DEFATTED
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Common questions about DEFATTED
- Is DEFATTED valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DEFATTED, where it scores 13 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DEFATTED worth?
- DEFATTED is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DEFATTED mean?
- Having had the fat taken out, as a food or tissue sample.
- What letters can be added to DEFATTED?
- No single letter can be added to DEFATTED to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of DEFATTED:
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