Hidden inside despairer sit despairer and draperies, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 419 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
despairer and draperies tie for the highest Scrabble score from despairer at 12 points. The top 10 of 419 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in despairer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and despairer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are despairer and draperies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despairer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are airspeed, predries, presider and 6 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in despairer produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diapers, praised, readier, and repairs. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including diapers, praised and aspired.
Unscrambling despairer turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, desire and diaper. For points, 26 words tie at 9 points, including diaper, prides and spared.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despairer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including drips, pride and speed.
Rearranging the letters in despairer produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and apes. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including deep, dips and drip.
Unscrambling despairer turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dip, pad and dap.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despairer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in despairer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in despairer 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.
despairer 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.
despairer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing despairer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are despairer and draperies, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from despairer 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 despairer produce 419 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.