Delates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 224 anagrams from letters in delates (adeelst).
1505-15; Latin dēlātus (suppletive past participle of dēferre to bring down, report, accuse), equivalent to dē- de- + lā- carry (past participle stem of ferre) + -tus p
Elders were ordered by the minister to search the town and “to delate the absentees.”
Perhaps this party division is necessary to induce each to watch and delate to the people the proceedings of the other.
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