despond needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
despond is the highest-scoring word from despond, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in despond — and it is despond itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despond. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opens, ponds, posed, and spend. For points, the strongest play is doped — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in despond produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done and ends. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including pond, deps and dope.
Unscrambling despond turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, odd and one. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despond. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in despond plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in despond 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.
despond 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 one sense for despond. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
despond is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing despond unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is despond, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from despond 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 despond produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.