Hidden inside departa sit adapter and readapt, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEPARTA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ADAPTER and READAPT.
adapter and readapt tie for the highest Scrabble score from departa at 10 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in departa produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adapter and readapt, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, taped, and trade. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including taped, adapt and adept.
Rearranging the letters in departa produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, dare and data. For points, the strongest plays are aped and pard — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling departa turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in departa plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in departa and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adapter and readapt, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from departa 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 departa produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.