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Is DESPERATELY a Scrabble word?

✔ In our word list DESPERATELY is in ENABLE, the open word list behind Words With Friends and most word apps. For official tournament Scrabble, check Merriam-Webster's Scrabble dictionary.

Scrabble pointsWords With Friends pointsLetters
171811

What does DESPERATELY mean?

  1. adverbwith great urgency
  2. adverbin intense despair

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Our word list is ENABLE, first published in 2000 and still used by most word games.

Meanings come from Princeton WordNet (2011). How common a word is comes from wordfreq.

Look up DESPERATELY in Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, Collins or Dictionary.com. Check it for Scrabble at Merriam-Webster Scrabble.

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Is DESPERATELY a Scrabble word?

DESPERATELY is in ENABLE, the word list Words With Friends closely matches, and most ENABLE words are playable in North American Scrabble. Confirm tournament validity in the official Scrabble dictionary.

How many points is DESPERATELY worth?

DESPERATELY is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words With Friends, before bonus squares.

What does DESPERATELY mean?

With great urgency.