depressor 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, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depressor is the highest-scoring word from depressor, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in depressor — and it is depressor itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressor. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is deposers, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in depressor produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dresser and pressed. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including pressed, deposer and deposes.
Unscrambling depressor turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orders and speeds. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including speeds, depose and dopers.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress and drops. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including drops, posed and speed.
Rearranging the letters in depressor produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and does. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including deep, drop and peed.
Unscrambling depressor turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and pro. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in depressor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in depressor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in depressor 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.
depressor 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 three senses for depressor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
depressor is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing depressor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is depressor, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from depressor 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 depressor produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.