What DEPENDS Means
DEPENDS is a form of DEPEND, which means:
- verb: be contingent upon (something that is elided)“That depends”
- verb: have faith or confidence in“you can count on me to help you any time”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DEPENDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 P3 E1 N1 D2 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In DEPENDS
71 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (3)
5 letter words (16)
4 letter words (28)
DEEDDEENDEEPDEESDENEDENSENDSENESESNENEDSNEEDNEEPNEPSPEDSPEEDPEENPEESPENDPENEPENSSEEDSEENSEEPSENDSENESNEDSNEESPED
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (7)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.