expat needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expat is the highest-scoring word from expat, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in expat — and it is expat itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expat produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tape. 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 expat turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, pea, pet, tap, and tax. 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at 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 expat and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
expat 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for expat. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
expat is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expat, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expat 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 expat produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.