explode needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LEXOPED, PODEXEL or DELOPXE and you get the same 7 letters as EXPLODE: so the words from EXPLODE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
explode is the highest-scoring word from explode, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in explode — and it is explode itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explode produces exactly one six-letter word: eloped. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explode. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel. For points, the strongest play is poxed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explode produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, peed, peel, and pole. For points, the strongest plays are expo and plex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explode turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, old, and pee. For points, the strongest play is pox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explode. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ex and ox — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in explode plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in explode 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.
explode 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record ten senses for explode. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
explode is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing explode unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is explode, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from explode 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 explode produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.