Hidden inside departs sit departs and petards, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
departs and petards tie for the highest Scrabble score from departs at 10 points. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in departs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and departs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are departs and petards, 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 departs turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spared, spread, stared, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, depart, drapes, padres, parsed, parted, pasted, petard, prated, rasped, spader, spared, and spread — 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 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, parts, rates, reads, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are adept, drape, padre, pards, pared, pated, raped, spade, spaed, 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 departs produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, dare, date, dear, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deps, pads, pard, peds, 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 departs turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, 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 departs 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.
departs 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 six senses for departs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
departs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing departs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are departs and petards, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from departs 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 departs produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.