degenerate is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

Advertisement

Meanings

Adjective (COMPARABLE)

(of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
(of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
(of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.

Noun (COUNTABLE)

One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral or corrupt person.
• In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.

Verb

(intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.
(transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

degenerate is a Scrabble valid word

• International English (Sowpods) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• US English (TWL06) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• 12 points

degenerate is an iScramble valid word

• The word is valid in iScramble ✓
• 55 points

degenerate is an QuickWords valid word

• The word is valid in QuickWords ✓
• 55 points

Advertisement

Same letters words (Anagrams)

• none

Same letters plus one

• DEGENERATED
• DEGENERATES
• ENGREATENED
• REGENERATED

Same letters minus one

• DENEGRATE
• GENERATED
• GREATENED
• TEEGARDEN