explodes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
explodes is the highest-scoring word from explodes, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in explodes — and it is explodes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explodes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: explode and exposed, worth 17 points apiece in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explodes turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expels and expose. For points, the strongest plays are expels, expose, and plexes — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explodes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel, peels and poles. For points, the strongest play is poxed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explodes produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, does and else. For points, the strongest plays are expo and plex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explodes turns up 40 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explodes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ex and ox — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in explodes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in explodes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
explodes 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 explodes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
explodes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing explodes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is explodes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from explodes 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 explodes produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.