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4-letter words starting with DE
There are 41 4-letter words starting with DE in the standard word-game list. The most common are dead, deal, dear, deep, desk, dean.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| dead | no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | 6 |
| deal | a particular instance of buying or selling | 5 |
| dear | dearly loved | 5 |
| deep | relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply | 7 |
| desk | a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments | 9 |
| dean | an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | 5 |
| debt | the state of owing something (especially money) | 7 |
| deny | declare untrue; contradict | 8 |
| deck | any of various platforms built into a vessel | 11 |
| deaf | lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part | 8 |
| deer | distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | 5 |
| deed | a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal… | 6 |
| demo | a visual presentation showing how something works | 7 |
| defy | resist or confront with resistance | 11 |
| dent | an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening) | 5 |
| dell | a small wooded hollow | 5 |
| deli | a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | 5 |
| deke | A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman. | 9 |
| deem | keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view | 7 |
| deva | A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism. | 8 |
| dens | A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas… | 5 |
| deco | a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs… | 7 |
| dewy | wet with dew | 11 |
| dere | Hurt; harm; injury. | 5 |
| deft | skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | 8 |
| dees | Something shaped like the letter D. | 5 |
| dele | To delete. | 5 |
| delf | an excavation; usually a quarry or mine | 8 |
| deme | A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica. | 7 |
| demy | A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches. | 10 |
| dene | A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet | 5 |
| derm | The integument of animal; the skin. | 7 |