dependent needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dependent is the highest-scoring word from dependent, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dependent — and it is dependent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dependent produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pendent, 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 dependent turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend, needed, and tended. 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 dependent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended. For points, the strongest plays are ended, penne, and tepee — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dependent produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep, need, peed, teen, and tend. 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 dependent turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, pee, pen, pet, and ten. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dependent. 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in dependent plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dependent and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
dependent 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 seven senses for dependent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dependent is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dependent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dependent, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dependent 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 dependent produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.