Hidden inside deprive sit deprive and predive, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deprive and predive tie for the highest Scrabble score from deprive at 13 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in deprive: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deprive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deprive and predive, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deprive turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derive and reived, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deprive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drive and pride. For points, the strongest play is viper — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deprive produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, dive, drip, ever, peed, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are perv and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deprive turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, eve, pee, per, pie, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deprive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id. 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.
Swap a single tile in deprive and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
deprive 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 three senses for deprive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
deprive is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deprive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deprive and predive, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deprive 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 deprive produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.