Hidden inside depletes sit depletes and steepled, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depletes and steepled tie for the highest Scrabble score from depletes at 11 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in depletes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and depletes 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 depletes and steepled, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depletes produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deepest and deletes. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including deepest, deplete and pestled.
Unscrambling depletes turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delete and peeled. For points, the strongest plays are peeled, pelted, and seeped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depletes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peels, sleep and slept. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, and speed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depletes produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, else and lets. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling depletes turns up 23 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depletes. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in depletes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in depletes 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.
depletes 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 depletes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
depletes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depletes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depletes and steepled, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from depletes 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 depletes produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.