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DEAD
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
D
2
E
1
A
1
D
2
Σ
6
Definitions
Adverb
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
- quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
Adjective
- devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
- physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
- drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
- no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
- lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
- not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
- unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
- not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds"
- lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
- devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
Noun
- people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word DEAD
Yes, DEAD is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 6 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
DEAD is a 4-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 2 consonants.