despise needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
despise is the highest-scoring word from despise, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in despise — and it is despise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling despise turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with speeds. For points, the strongest plays are espied, peised, pissed, and speeds — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeds, sides, speed, spied, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, pedis, siped, speed, 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 despise produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, dies, dips, peed, pees, pies, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, dips, pedi, peds, peed, 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 despise turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ids, pee, pie, see, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in despise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are 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 despise 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.
despise 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 despise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
despise is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing despise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is despise, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from despise 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 despise produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.