Hidden inside dependu is one standout: upended, a seven-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NEDUPED, DEPDUNE or NEEDUPD and you get the same 7 letters as DEPENDU: so the words from DEPENDU listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
DEPENDU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to UPENDED (verb, form of upend), to set or stand on end, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
upended is the highest-scoring word from dependu, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dependu produces exactly one seven-letter word: upended. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dependu produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep and dude. For points, the strongest plays are deep, dupe, peed, and pend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dependu turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dependu and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is upended, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dependu 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 dependu produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.