Unscramble DEPENDING and you have 129 words, DEPENDING itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. PENDING is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2E1P34E1N12D2I1N12G23
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from DEPENDING split into 1 with 9 letters, 7 with 7, 20 with 6, 17 with 5, 35 with 4, 38 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among 35 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DEPENDING, the top score is 7, reached by 7. NEED, DEEP and EDGE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DEPENDING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What DEPENDING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DEPENDING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEPENDING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 129) | 101 | 129 | 95 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PENNIED, PENING, DEEING, PENED, PIEND, GEEP, PENIE, DEID, EIGNE, PENE, PENI, DEEN and 16 more, 28 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: GENNED, PEDI, DEP, DENI, NEG and GI, 6 in all.