Hidden inside expands sit expands and spandex, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expands and spandex tie for the highest Scrabble score from expands at 17 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in expands: one comes from rearranging its letters, and expands itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expands. For points, the strongest plays are expands and spandex — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expands produces exactly one six-letter word: expand. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spend. For points, the strongest play is paxes — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in expands produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ends, naps, pads, pans, peas, and pens. For points, the strongest play is apex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expands turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ape, end, nap, pad, and pan. For points, the strongest play is pax — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 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 expands 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.
expands 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for expands. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
expands is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expands unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are expands and spandex, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from expands 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 expands produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.