Hidden inside deprives sit deprives and prevised, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deprives and prevised tie for the highest Scrabble score from deprives at 14 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in deprives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deprives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deprives and prevised, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deprives produces 10 valid seven-letter words. 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 deprives turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, drives, prides, served, and spider. For points, the strongest play is vespid — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deprives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dives, dries, drips, drive, pride, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are pervs, veeps, and viper — each 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 deprives produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, dies, dips, dive, drip, and ever. For points, the strongest plays are perv, spiv, 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 deprives turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, eve, ids, pee, per, and pie. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deprives. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in deprives plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deprives and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
deprives 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 deprives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
deprives is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deprives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deprives and prevised, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deprives 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 deprives produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.