Hidden inside depend sit depend and pended, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depend and pended tie for the highest Scrabble score from depend at 10 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in depend: one comes from rearranging its letters, and depend itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend. For points, the strongest plays are depend and pended — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling depend produces exactly one five-letter word: ended. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depend produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep, need, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pend — 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 depend turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are dep 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depend. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, 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 depend and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
depend 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 two senses for depend. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
depend is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depend and pended, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from depend 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 depend produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.