DEMPT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. DEMPT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DEMPT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DEMPT is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DEMPT
No single letter turns DEMPT into another word.
How DEMPT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DEMPT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What stands out about DEMPT
- The letters of DEMPT run in alphabetical order from first to last.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DEMPT mean in Scrabble?
other
archaic
An old past tense and past participle of deem, meaning judged or considered.
Dempt is what deem looked like before English verbs settled almost entirely into the regular -ed pattern, the same kind of survival as wrought beside worked. It turns up in Middle English and in poetry that deliberately reaches for an older sound, standing for deemed in contexts where deem itself is already formal. Modern writing uses deemed in every case where dempt would once have appeared.
How DEMPT is used
Archaic and obsolete outside quotation and deliberately old-fashioned verse; deemed is the modern form.
- The judge dempt him guilty by the old law.
- She was dempt worthy of the honour, the chronicle says.
- The poem uses dempt where a modern line would use deemed.
- He dempt the bridge unsafe and turned back.
- Old law texts read dempt guilty rather than deemed guilty.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DEMPT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in DEMPT
1 words end in DEMPT. Useful as a back hook: play DEMPT onto a word already on the board.
Words with DEMPT inside
11 words contain DEMPT in the middle. Words that start with DEMPT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DEMPT
Common questions about DEMPT
- Is DEMPT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DEMPT is not in it.
- How many points is DEMPT worth?
- DEMPT is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DEMPT mean?
- An old past tense and past participle of deem, meaning judged or considered.
- What letters can be added to DEMPT?
- No single letter can be added to DEMPT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DEMPT:
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