deputes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deputes is the highest-scoring word from deputes, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in deputes — and it is deputes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deputes turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is depute, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deputes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with setup, speed, and upset. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, dupes, pedes, pseud, speed, and spued — 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 deputes produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, dust, peed, pees, pets, puts, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, dupe, dups, peds, peed, puds, sped, and spud — 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 deputes turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, pee, pet, put, see, set, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deputes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe and up — 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 deputes 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.
deputes 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 deputes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
deputes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deputes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deputes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deputes 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 deputes produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.