Hidden inside deeps sit deeps, pedes, and speed, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deeps, pedes, and speed tie for the highest Scrabble score from deeps at 8 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in deeps: two come from rearranging its letters, and deeps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with speed. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, and speed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deeps produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, peed, pees, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, peds, peed, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deeps turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee and see. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deeps. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, 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 deeps and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
deeps 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twenty-one senses for deeps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
deeps is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deeps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deeps, pedes, and speed, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deeps 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 deeps produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.