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.
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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, the strongest plays are depurate, pastured, pederast, perdures, persuade, predates, raptured, repasted, respread, spreader, trapesed, updaters, upreared, and upstared — 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 departures produces 64 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, repeats, retards, starred, and updates. For points, the strongest plays are adepter, departs, deputes, drapers, erupted, perdues, perdure, perused, petards, predate, reputed, respade, retaped, sparred, speared, spurred, spurted, supered, tapered, updarts, updater, updates, and uprated — 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 departures turns up 132 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, dearer, desert, easter, erased, paused, and purest. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, depart, depute, draper, drapes, drupes, dupers, padres, pardee, parred, parsed, parted, pasted, paused, pedate, perdue, perdus, pesade, petard, prated, prudes, purdas, pureed, purred, pursed, rasped, reaped, spader, spared, spread, updart, and update — 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 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, dears, deers, eased, erase, and parts. For points, the strongest plays are adept, deeps, drape, drupe, duper, dupes, padre, pards, pared, pated, pedes, perdu, preed, prude, pseud, purda, raped, spade, spaed, speed, spued, taped, and urped — 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 departures produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arts, pads, part, past, peas, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are aped, pads, pard, peds, peed, puds, sped, spud, daps, deep, deps, dupe, and dups — 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 departures turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, art, ate, due, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dup, pad, ped, and pud — 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 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, at, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
If you only take one play from this page, make it departures — at 13 points in Scrabble, no other word from departures pays better.
Hidden inside departures are 670 valid words in total. Broken down by length: 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.
Under the hood, UnscrambleX runs departures against full game dictionaries, keeps only the arrangements that are legal to play, and ranks what survives by score — which is how departures end up at the top of your results. The same engine powers checks for Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Word Jumble, so a word shown here is a word you can actually put on the board.
Every rack tells a story, and departures is no exception. Once the letters come apart, two paths open up on the board.
You can chase the points with departures, or play it safe with a quick low-tile drop like ae and ar when the board leaves you no room.
That gap matters: the weakest play here earns 2 points while the strongest reaches 13, so the same letters can swing an entire turn depending on where and how they land.
UnscrambleX lays out the full spread so you can weigh a big score against board control before committing — and along the way you'll bump into words you didn't know were words.
Treat the results list as a practice drill, not just an answer key. Cover it, shuffle departures in your head, and count how many of the 670 words you can spot before peeking.
Most players catch the obvious ones like departures quickly — it's the short survivors that slip past unnoticed, and those misses are the useful part.
Run the same drill on a few racks a day and the letter patterns start jumping out on their own, no unscrambler needed.
You collect words you'd never look up. Nobody opens a dictionary hunting for ae — but once it turns up in a results list, it's yours to play forever.
Spelling stops being guesswork: rebuilding departures from loose tiles forces you to commit to a letter order and get corrected instantly, a faster feedback loop than any spelling drill. And with plays from departures worth anywhere between 2 and 13 points, every turn doubles as a small economics problem — take the points now, or hold the flexible tiles for a better board.
Words you've physically assembled also stick better than words you've only read, which is exactly what timed formats punish you for not having.