depresses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depresses is the highest-scoring word from depresses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in depresses — and it is depresses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depresses produces exactly one eight-letter word: speeders. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depresses produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dresses, pressed, and presses. For points, the strongest plays are depress, pressed, speeder, and speered — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depresses turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper and speeds. For points, the strongest plays are deeper, peered, seeped, and speeds — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depresses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress and press. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, preed, and speed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depresses produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and peed. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling depresses turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and red. 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 depresses. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in depresses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in depresses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
depresses 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for depresses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
depresses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depresses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is depresses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from depresses 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 depresses produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.