exposes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exposes is the highest-scoring word from exposes, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in exposes — and it is exposes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exposes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poses and sexes. For points, the strongest plays are expos and poxes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exposes produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, pees, pose, and sees. For points, the strongest play is expo — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exposes turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, see, sex, and sox. For points, the strongest play is pox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exposes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and so. For points, the strongest plays are ex and ox — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in exposes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exposes 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.
exposes 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 ten senses for exposes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
exposes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exposes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exposes, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exposes 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 exposes produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.