desperate is a valid English word

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

Meanings

Adjective (COMPARABLE)

In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
• I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
• I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
• a desperate disease;  desperate fortune

Noun (COUNTABLE)

A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.

desperate is a Scrabble valid word

desperate

• International English (Sowpods) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✔
• US English (TWL06) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✔
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desperate is an iScramble, QuickWords valid word

desperate

• The word is valid in iScramble ✔
• The word is valid in QuickWords ✔
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Same letters words (Anagrams)

• APERESTED
• DEPARTEES
• SEPERATED

Same letters plus one

• DEPRECATES
• DEPREDATES
• DESPERATES
• PEERCASTED
• PETARDEERS
• PRESTEAMED
• VESPERATED

Same letters minus one

• DEPARTEE
• EASTERED
• EREPTASE
• PEDERAST
• PESTERED
• PREDATES
• RAPESEED
• READEPTS
• REPASTED
• REPEATED
• REPEATES
• RESEATED
• RESEDATE
• RETEASED
• SEPERATE
• SPREADEE
• TRAPESED