Hidden inside depressants sit depressants and pantdresses, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 847 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depressants and pantdresses tie for the highest Scrabble score from depressants at 14 points. The top 10 of 847 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in depressants: one comes from rearranging its letters, and depressants itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depressants and pantdresses, 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 depressants produces 3 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depressant and trespassed, 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 depressants turns up 9 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adeptness, pantdress, and pederasts, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desserts, presents, pretends, and stressed. For points, the strongest plays are aspersed, parented, pederast, predates, pretends, repassed, repasted, respades, spenders, stapedes, and trapesed — 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 depressants produces 99 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, deserts, dessert, dresses, eastern, easters, and nearest. For points, the strongest plays are adepter, departs, depress, panders, pantsed, pedants, pentads, pesades, petards, predate, pressed, pretend, respade, retaped, sneaped, spaders, speaned, speared, spender, spreads, and tapered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling depressants turns up 182 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, earned, easter, enters, erased, erases, and neater. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, depart, drapes, padres, pander, panted, pardee, parsed, parted, passed, pasted, pedant, pedate, pentad, pesade, petard, prated, rasped, reaped, repand, spader, spades, spared, speeds, spends, and spread — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 234 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needs, nerds, nests, pants, parts, pasts, and penes. For points, the strongest plays are naped, padre, paned, pards, pared, pated, pedes, pends, preed, raped, spade, spaed, speed, spend, taped, adept, deeps, and drape — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in depressants produces 178 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, arts, naps, near, neat, and need. For points, the strongest plays are aped, pads, pard, peds, peed, pend, sped, daps, deep, and deps — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling depressants turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ape, are, art, and ass. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, pad, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. 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.
depressants 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 two senses for depressants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
depressants is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depressants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depressants and pantdresses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from depressants 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 depressants produce 847 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 3 ten-letter words, 9 nine-letter words, 40 eight-letter words, 99 seven-letter words, 182 six-letter words, 234 five-letter words, 178 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.