depressive needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 321 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depressive is the highest-scoring word from depressive, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 321 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in depressive — and it is depressive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deserves. For points, the strongest plays are deprives and prevised — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depressive produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deserve, desires, pressed, and spiders. For points, the strongest plays are deprive, predive, and vespids — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depressive turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper, desire and drives. For points, the strongest plays are peeved and vespid — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dives and dress. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including peeve, pervs and spivs.
Rearranging the letters in depressive produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and dies. For points, the strongest plays are perv, spiv, and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling depressive turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and eve. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in depressive plus one additional letter.
depressive 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 depressive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
depressive is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depressive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is depressive, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from depressive 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 depressive produce 321 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 15 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.