expansions needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 340 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expansions is the highest-scoring word from expansions, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 340 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in expansions — and it is expansions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expansions turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is expansion, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expansions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is saxonies, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expansions produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passion. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including passion, epinaos and inspans.
Unscrambling expansions turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insane, noises and pianos. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including axions, axises and axones.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expansions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise and noses. For points, the strongest plays are expos, paxes, pixes, and poxes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expansions produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, naps and nine. For points, the strongest plays are apex and expo — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expansions turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass and nap. For points, the strongest plays are pax, pix, and pox — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expansions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
expansions 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for expansions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
expansions is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expansions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expansions, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expansions 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 expansions produce 340 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.