Jumble solved
Is DEPILATES a word? Yes.
DEPILATES is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 9 letters, worth 12 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 585 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 585
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 9 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 4 : 5
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 4 vowels (E, I, A, E) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 5 remaining consonants (D, P, L, T, S).
Anagrams of DEPILATES
One word uses all 9 letters:
- depilates
9-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
8 words found7-letter words
33 words found- alipeds10
- despite10
- elapids10
- elapsed10
- lapides10
- palsied10
- pestled10
- petaled10
- plaited10
- plastid10
- pleased10
- pleated10
- pleiads10
- sepaled10
- spalted10
+ 18 more 7-letter words
6-letter words
94 words found+ 79 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
163 words found+ 148 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
174 words found+ 159 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
88 words found+ 73 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
24 words found+ 9 more 2-letter words
Words hidden inside DEPILATES
Without moving a single letter, reading depilates straight through uncovers 9 shorter words — depilate, epilates, epilate, ates, late, ate, and more. The longest unbroken run is depilate.
Related jumbles to try
Shorter words inside DEPILATES — solve each on its own:
Add one letter to DEPILATES
Slot in one more tile — any letter — and depilates opens up 4 10-letter words. Handy when a puzzle gives you a blank or an extra square.
Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
9
Distinct
8
Vowels
44%
E, I, A, E
Consonants
56%
D, P, L, T, S
Browse more word lists
Explore every word of a given length — each links to its anagrams and solution.
Practise your unscrambling
Unscrambling gets faster with reps — these two are built for that.
Solving DEPILATES: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters depilates?
Rearranging the 9 letters in depilates produces 585 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 9-letter answer depilates here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does depilates have any anagrams?
Using all 9 letters, depilates rearranges into exactly one word: depilates.
What is the longest word you can make from depilates?
The longest solution is depilates at 9 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from depilates?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: depilates yields ads, aid, ail, ais, ait, ale, alp, als, alt and ape. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from depilates scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, depilates is the top scorer from depilates at 12 points, followed by depilate (11), epilated (11) and pedestal (11). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside depilates?
Read left to right without moving any letters and depilates already contains 9 shorter words: depilate, epilates, epilate, ates, late and ate (plus 3 more). The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is depilate. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.