Hidden inside depilate sit depilate, epilated, and pileated, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 208 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depilate, epilated, and pileated tie for the highest Scrabble score from depilate at 11 points. The top 10 of 208 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in depilate: two come from rearranging its letters, and depilate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depilate, epilated, and pileated, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in depilate produces 6 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 petaled, plaited, pleated, and taliped, each 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 depilate turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail and leaped. For points, the strongest plays are aliped, elapid, leaped, pealed, pedate, pelted, plated, and pleiad — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depilate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt, ideal, leapt, plate, and taped. For points, the strongest plays are adept, padle, paled, pated, pedal, piled, plaid, plead, plied, taped, and tepid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in depilate produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal, deep, deli, dial, diet, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are aped, deep, dipt, padi, paid, pedi, peed, pied, and pled — 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 depilate turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, ape, ate, die, dip, eat, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depilate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in depilate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
depilate 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for depilate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
depilate is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depilate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depilate, epilated, and pileated, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from depilate 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 depilate produce 208 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.