231 words come out when you unscramble DEPARTS, starting with DEPARTS itself: 10 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of DEPARTS are on the page: DRAPETS, PETARDS and TRAPSED, each 10 points. The best shorter words score 9: 15 of them, SPREAD, DEPART and PADRES included. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of DEPARTS at once for 60 in Scrabble (10 + 50) or 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
Looking for sprated, spreadt, sparted, despart, tradesp, speardt, parteds, pastred, pasterd or stedarp? They use the same letters as DEPARTS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DEPARTS split into 4 with 7 letters, 30 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 59 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Among 30 6-letter words made with DEPARTS letters, the top score is 9, reached by 15. SPREAD, TRADES and DEPART are the familiar ones.
17 of 60 5-letter words from DEPARTS tie at 8 points; none scores more. PARTS, STRAP and SPARE will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DEPARTS, the top score is 7, reached by 9. DATE, READ and PART are the familiar ones.
Of the 59 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DEPARTS, 4 score 6 points, the group's best. ARE, SET and ART are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of DEPARTS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with DE · ending in TS · all 7-letter words
What DEPARTS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. DEPARTS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEPARTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 231) | 189 | 231 | 179 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DRAPETS, TRAPSED, DRAPET, TRAPED, APTED, DRAPS, PEARST, PETARS, PRADS, SEPAD, SPARD, SPRAD and 30 more, 42 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DEPS, DEP, PST, DAS, EDS, ATS, DA, EST, TES and TE, 10 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of DEPARTS plus a single extra one.