deplete needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deplete is the highest-scoring word from deplete, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in deplete — and it is deplete itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deplete. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tepee, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deplete produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, peed, and peel. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deplete turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, let, pee, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deplete. 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.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in deplete plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deplete 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.
deplete 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 deplete. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
deplete is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deplete unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deplete, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deplete 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 deplete produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.