depending needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depending is the highest-scoring word from depending, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in depending — and it is depending itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depending produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needing. For points, the strongest play is pending — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depending turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denied, depend and ending. For points, the strongest plays are depend, pended, and pinged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dined and ended. For points, the strongest plays are edged, genip, and pined — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depending produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep and died. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and pedi.
Unscrambling depending turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and dig. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including dip, pig and dep.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in depending 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.
depending 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.
depending is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is depending, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from depending 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 depending produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.