expatriate 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, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expatriate is the highest-scoring word from expatriate, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in expatriate — and it is expatriate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expatriate 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 words are expatiate and extirpate, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling expatriate produces exactly one eight-letter word: patriate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expatriate produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier. For points, the strongest plays are expiate and pretext — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expatriate turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expert, expire, pirate, and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are expert, expire, and pretax — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expatriate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, extra, and treat. For points, the strongest play is expat — 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 expatriate produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, exit, pair, part, rate, tape, and taxi. For points, the strongest plays are apex and prex — each 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 expatriate turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are pax and pix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expatriate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ex, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in expatriate plus one additional letter.
expatriate 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 three senses for expatriate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
expatriate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expatriate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expatriate, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expatriate 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 expatriate produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.