Hidden inside expires sit expires and prexies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expires and prexies tie for the highest Scrabble score from expires at 16 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in expires: one comes from rearranging its letters, and expires itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expires. For points, the strongest plays are expires and prexies — 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 expires turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expire and sexier. For points, the strongest plays are expire and prexes — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expires. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pixes, 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 expires produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, pees, pies, reps, rips, and rise. For points, the strongest play is prex — 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 expires turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per, pie, rep, rip, see, and sex. For points, the strongest play is pix — 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 expires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and is. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in expires 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.
expires 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 expires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
expires is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are expires and prexies, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from expires 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 expires produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.