expounder needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expounder is the highest-scoring word from expounder, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in expounder — and it is expounder itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expounder produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is expound, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expounder turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opened, opener, and poured. For points, the strongest play is expend — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expounder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuder, pound, proud, round, and under. 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 expounder produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, done, drop, need, nerd, and nope. For points, the strongest plays are expo and prex — each 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 expounder turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, nor, one, our, pee, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expounder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex, no, on, or, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in expounder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in expounder and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
expounder 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 one sense for expounder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
expounder is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expounder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expounder, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expounder 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 expounder produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.