department needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 432 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
department is the highest-scoring word from department, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 432 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in department — and it is department itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling department produces exactly one nine-letter word: patterned. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in department. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mattered. For points, the strongest plays are dampener and tampered — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in department produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pattern, pretend, tempted, and treated. For points, the strongest plays are premade, tempted, and tramped — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling department turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, dreamt and earned. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including dampen, damper and deperm.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in department. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dream and eaten. For points, the strongest play is amped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in department produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dare. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling department turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in department. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in department plus one additional letter.
department 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for department. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
department is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing department unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is department, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from department 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 department produce 432 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 12 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.