Hidden inside explored sit exploder and explored, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exploder and explored tie for the highest Scrabble score from explored at 18 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in explored: one comes from rearranging its letters, and explored itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with explored. For points, the strongest plays are exploder and explored — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explored produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with explode and explore. For points, the strongest play is explode — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explored turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is plexor, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel and older. For points, the strongest play is poxed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explored produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and drop. For points, the strongest plays are expo, plex, and prex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explored turns up 36 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 explored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex, and or. 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 explored plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in explored 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.
explored 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.
explored is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing explored unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exploder and explored, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from explored 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 explored produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.