dependency needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dependency is the highest-scoring word from dependency, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in dependency — and it is dependency itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dependency produces exactly one eight-letter word: pendency. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dependency turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend and needed. For points, the strongest plays are depend, pended, and yenned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dependency. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended, needy, and penny. For points, the strongest plays are deedy, neddy, and penny — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dependency produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep and deny. For points, the strongest plays are dyed and eddy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dependency turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dye, end and eye. For points, the strongest plays are pye and yep — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dependency. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
dependency 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 3-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 dependency. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
dependency is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dependency unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dependency, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dependency 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 dependency produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.