Hidden inside depraves sit depraves and pervades, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depraves and pervades tie for the highest Scrabble score from depraves at 14 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in depraves: one comes from rearranging its letters, and depraves 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 depraves and pervades, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in depraves produces 8 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 deprave, pervade, and repaved, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling depraves turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erased, served, spared, and spread. For points, the strongest play is paveed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depraves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dears, deers, eased, erase, reads, and saved. For points, the strongest plays are paved and vaped — 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 depraves produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, dare, dear, deep, deer, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, vape, and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling depraves turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, ear, era, eve, and pad. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depraves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 depraves 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.
depraves 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 depraves. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
depraves is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depraves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depraves and pervades, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from depraves 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 depraves produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.