expounding needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expounding is the highest-scoring word from expounding, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in expounding — and it is expounding itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expounding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pounding. For points, the strongest plays are deponing, pounding, and upending — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expounding produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dungeon, opening, penguin, and undoing. For points, the strongest play is expound — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expounding turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ending, pigeon, and undone. For points, the strongest play is poxing — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expounding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, guide, pound, and union. For points, the strongest play is poxed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expounding produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, done and gone. For points, the strongest play is expo — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expounding turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dip. For points, the strongest plays are pix and pox — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expounding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex and go. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, xi, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
expounding 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 5-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 expounding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
expounding is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expounding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expounding, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expounding 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 expounding produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.