explanting needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 359 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
explanting is the highest-scoring word from explanting, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 359 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in explanting — and it is explanting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explanting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with planting. For points, the strongest play is exalting — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explanting produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with explain, leaning, and leaping. For points, the strongest plays are explain and explant — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explanting turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, planet, and taping. For points, the strongest play is taxing — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explanting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alien and angel. For points, the strongest plays are expat and pixel — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explanting produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exit, gain and gate. For points, the strongest plays are apex and plex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explanting turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are pax and pix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explanting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
explanting 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
explanting is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing explanting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is explanting, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from explanting 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 explanting produce 359 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.