Deserting

What it means

1. (verb) To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake. “You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.”
2. (verb) To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission. “Anyone found deserting will be punished.”

Letter analysis

• Deserting contains 9 letters: 3 vowel(s) and 6 consonant(s).
• It uses 8 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 3.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 11.

Sub-words

• designer
• gentries
• ingested
• inserted
• integers
• nerdiest
• redesign
• resident
• resigned
• steering
• stringed
• trendies
• deniers
• destine
• dieters
• edgiest
• entries
• genders
• integer
• regents
• reigned
• resting
• seeding
• stinger
• tenders
• treeing
• deigns
• denier
• denies
• denser
• desert
• design
• desire
• deters
• dieter
• digest
• diners
• direst
• dirges
• driest
• edgier
• egrets
• eiders
• enters
• entire
• gender
• genies
• genres
• girted
• greens
• greets
• grinds
• ingest
• insert
• inters
• nested
• regent
• reigns
• reined

Related words

Other 9-letter words

• aardvarks
• abandoned
• abasement
• abatement
• abattoirs
• abdicated
• abdicates
• abdominal
• abductees
• abducting
• abduction
• abductors
• abhorrent
• abhorring
• abilities
• ablatives
• ablutions
• abnegated

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Words starting with DES

• desalinate
• desalinated
• desalinates
• desalinating
• desalination
• descant
• descanted
• descanting
• descants
• descend
• descendant
• descendants
• descended
• descendent
• descendents
• descender
• descending
• descends

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Words ending with ING

• abandoning
• abashing
• abasing
• abating
• abbreviating
• abdicating
• abducting
• abetting
• abhorring
• abiding
• abjuring
• abnegating
• abolishing
• abominating
• aborting
• abounding
• abrading
• abridging

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