dependence needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dependence is the highest-scoring word from dependence, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in dependence — and it is dependence itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dependence produces exactly one eight-letter word: deepened. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dependence turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend and needed. 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.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dependence. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended. For points, the strongest plays are ceded and pence — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dependence produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep, need, and peed. For points, the strongest play is cepe — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dependence turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are cep and pec — each worth 7 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 dependence. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in dependence plus one additional letter.
dependence 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 4-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 dependence. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
dependence is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dependence unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dependence, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dependence 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 dependence produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.