Hidden inside decrepit sit decrepit, depicter, and precited, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decrepit, depicter, and precited tie for the highest Scrabble score from decrepit at 13 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in decrepit: two come from rearranging its letters, and decrepit itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decrepit, depicter, and precited, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decrepit produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with predict and receipt. For points, the strongest plays are pierced and predict — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decrepit turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct, and recipe. For points, the strongest plays are creped, depict, percid, pieced, and priced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decrepit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, piece, price, pride, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are creep, crepe, crept, cripe, piece, and price — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decrepit produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, dice, diet, dirt, drip, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, crip, epic, perc, and pice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decrepit turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ice, pee, per, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decrepit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in decrepit and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
decrepit is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for decrepit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
decrepit is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decrepit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decrepit, depicter, and precited, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decrepit earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in decrepit produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.