depleted needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depleted is the highest-scoring word from depleted, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in depleted — and it is depleted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depleted produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deleted. For points, the strongest play is deplete — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depleted. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deled and tepee, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depleted produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep, peed, and peel. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depleted 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 depleted. 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.
Swap a single tile in depleted 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.
depleted 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 depleted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
depleted is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depleted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is depleted, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from depleted 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 depleted produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.