Hidden inside depleter sit depleter and peltered, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depleter and peltered tie for the highest Scrabble score from depleter at 11 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in depleter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and depleter 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 depleter and peltered, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depleter produces 3 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 deplete and petered, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depleter turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper, delete, and peeled. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including deeper, peeled and pedler.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depleter. 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 depleter produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and peed. For points, the strongest plays are deep, peed, and pled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depleter turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, let and pee. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depleter. 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.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in depleter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in depleter 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.
depleter is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
depleter is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depleter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depleter and peltered, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from depleter 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 depleter produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.