Hidden inside depener sit preened and preneed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEPENER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to PREENED and PRENEED.
preened and preneed tie for the highest Scrabble score from depener at 10 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in depener 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 words are preened and preneed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depener. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preed, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depener produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and need. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depener turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, pee and pen. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depener. 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.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in depener plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in depener 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 plays from these letters are preened and preneed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from depener 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 depener produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.