departures needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 670 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
departures is the highest-scoring word from departures, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 670 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in departures — and it is departures itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling departures turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apertured, departure, depurates, and persuader, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrested and treasure. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including depurate, pastured and pederast.
Rearranging the letters in departures produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, repeats and retards. For points, 23 words tie at 10 points, including updates, adepter and departs.
Unscrambling departures turns up 132 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, dearer and desert. For points, 32 words tie at 9 points, including paused, spared and spread.
There are 187 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 23 words tie at 8 points, including speed, taped and adept.
Rearranging the letters in departures produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts and pads. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including pads, peed and deep.
Unscrambling departures turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and are. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in departures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
departures 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 2-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 departures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
departures is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing departures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is departures, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from departures 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 departures produce 670 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 132 six-letter words, 187 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.