depressing needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 543 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depressing is the highest-scoring word from depressing, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 543 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in depressing — and it is depressing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depressing turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designers. For points, the strongest play is speedings — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer, dressing, and pressing. For points, the strongest plays are speeding and springed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in depressing produces 52 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designs, desires, genders, penises, pressed, singers, and spiders. For points, the strongest plays are depress, despise, peering, pinders, pingers, preeing, preside, pressed, prissed, repined, ripened, seeping, speired, spender, spiders, spiered, springe, and springs — 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 depressing turns up 117 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, design, desire, diners, gender, grinds, and peeing. For points, the strongest plays are griped and pinged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner, dines, dress, dries, drips, and edges. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, drips, genip, gripe, grips, pedes, pedis, pends, pined, pings, preed, pride, pried, prigs, redip, repeg, riped, siped, speed, spend, spied, and sprig — 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 depressing produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with need, nerd, peed, pees, pens, pies, and pigs. For points, the strongest plays are pedi, peds, peed, pegs, pend, pied, pigs, ping, prig, sped, deep, deps, dips, drip, gips, and grip — 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 depressing turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dip, end, gee, ids, and pee. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, gip, ped, peg, and pig — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in depressing plus one additional letter.
depressing 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 3-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 depressing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
depressing is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depressing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is depressing, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from depressing 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 depressing produce 543 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 52 seven-letter words, 117 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.