Hidden inside despair sit aspired, despair, diapers and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspired, despair, diapers and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from despair at 10 points. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in despair: three come from rearranging its letters, and despair itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diapers and praised. For points, the strongest plays are aspired, despair, diapers, and praised — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling despair turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diaper, praise, prides, raised, spared, spider, and spread. For points, the strongest plays are diaper, drapes, padres, paired, pardie, parsed, prides, prised, rapids, rasped, redips, repaid, spader, spared, sparid, spider, spired, and spread — 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despair. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, dares, dears, dries, drips, and ideas. For points, the strongest plays are drape, drips, padis, padre, padri, pardi, pards, pared, pedis, pride, pried, raped, rapid, redip, riped, sapid, siped, spade, spaed, and spied — 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 despair produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, apes, dare, dear, dies, and dips. For points, the strongest plays are aped, daps, deps, dips, drip, padi, pads, paid, pard, pedi, peds, pied, 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 despair turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, ape, are, die, and dip. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, and ped — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despair. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in despair 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.
despair 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 three senses for despair. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
despair is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing despair unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspired, despair, diapers, and praised, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from despair 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 despair produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.