Hidden inside departee sit departee, epatered, and repeated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
departee, epatered, and repeated tie for the highest Scrabble score from departee at 11 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in departee: two come from rearranging its letters, and departee itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeated. For points, the strongest plays are departee, epatered, and repeated — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in departee produces 5 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 adepter, petered, predate, retaped, and tapered, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling departee turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are deeper, depart, pardee, parted, pedate, peered, petard, prated, and reaped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taped and trade. For points, the strongest plays are adept, drape, padre, pared, pated, preed, raped, and taped — 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 departee produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, deep, deer, part, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are aped, deep, pard, and peed — 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 departee turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departee. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in departee 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.
departee 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.
departee is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing departee unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are departee, epatered, and repeated, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from departee 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 departee produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.