dep and ped tie for the highest Scrabble score from dep at 6 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in dep: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dep itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dep. 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 dep and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
dep is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
dep is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dep unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dep and ped, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dep 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 dep produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.