depression needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 691 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depression is the highest-scoring word from depression, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 691 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in depression — and it is depression itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depression turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dispenser and redispose, 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 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depression. If a familiar word is all you need, start with episodes, responds, and response. For points, the strongest plays are deposers, despiser, dispense, disperse, disposer, dopiness, dropsies, episodes, presides, prisoned, responds, spenders, spendier, and spondees — 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 depression produces 71 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires, episode, openers, penises, periods, persons, and pressed. For points, the strongest plays are depones, deposer, deposes, depress, despise, dispose, episode, periods, pernods, pinders, ponders, preside, pressed, prissed, repined, reposed, respond, ripened, speedos, speired, spender, spiders, spiered, and spondee — 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 depression turns up 157 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desire, diners, noises, opened, opener, and period. For points, the strongest plays are depone, depose, dipsos, dopers, dopier, epodes, espied, opened, opined, pedros, peined, peised, perdie, period, pernod, pinder, pissed, poinds, poised, ponder, ponied, prides, prised, proned, prosed, redips, sniped, speedo, speeds, spends, spider, spined, spired, spodes, and spored — 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 179 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depression. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needs, nerds, noise, noses, opens, penes, and penis. For points, the strongest plays are pedes, pedis, pedro, pends, pined, poind, ponds, pored, posed, preed, pride, pried, prods, redip, riped, deeps, dipso, doper, dopes, dorps, drips, drops, epode, roped, siped, speed, spend, spied, and spode — 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 depression produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with need, nerd, nope, nose, ones, open, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are oped, pedi, peds, peed, pend, pied, pods, pond, prod, sped, deep, deps, dips, dope, dorp, drip, and drop — 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 depression turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, end, ids, nor, one, and pee. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, ped, and pod — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depression. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in depression plus one additional letter.
depression 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 ten senses for depression. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
depression is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depression unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is depression, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from depression 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 depression produce 691 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 71 seven-letter words, 157 six-letter words, 179 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.