Hidden inside spondee sit depones and spondee, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
depones and spondee tie for the highest Scrabble score from spondee at 10 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in spondee: one comes from rearranging its letters, and spondee itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depones and spondee, 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 spondee turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opened. For points, the strongest plays are depone, depose, epodes, opened, and speedo — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spondee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needs, opens, penes, ponds, posed, speed, and spend. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, dopes, epode, pedes, pends, ponds, posed, speed, spend, and spode — 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 spondee produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, does, done, ends, need, nope, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, dope, oped, peds, peed, pend, pods, pond, 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 spondee turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, one, pee, pen, see, and son. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spondee. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in spondee 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.
spondee 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 spondee. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
spondee is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spondee unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are depones and spondee, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spondee 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 spondee produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.