expound 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, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expound is the highest-scoring word from expound, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in expound — and it is expound itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pound. For points, the strongest play is poxed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in expound produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, nope, nude, open, pond, undo, and upon. For points, the strongest play is expo — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expound turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, one, and pen. For points, the strongest play is pox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex, no, on, and up. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in expound plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in expound 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.
expound 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for expound. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
expound is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expound unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expound, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expound 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 expound produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.