Hidden inside despot sit depots, despot, dopest and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depots, despot, dopest and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from despot at 9 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in despot: four come from rearranging its letters, and despot itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posted. For points, the strongest plays are depots, despot, dopest, posted, and stoped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poets and posed. For points, the strongest plays are depot, dopes, opted, posed, spode, and toped — 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 despot produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, pets, poet, pose, post, and pots. For points, the strongest plays are deps, dope, oped, peds, pods, and sped — 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 despot turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, pet, pot, set, toe, and top. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — 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 despot and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
despot 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for despot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
despot is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing despot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depots, despot, dopest, posted, and stoped, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from despot 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 despot produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.