Hidden inside expresser sit expresser and reexpress, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expresser and reexpress tie for the highest Scrabble score from expresser at 18 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in expresser: one comes from rearranging its letters, and expresser itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are expresser and reexpress, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expresser produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: express, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expresser 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 prexes, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expresser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press and sexes. For points, the strongest plays are rexes, sexer, and sexes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expresser produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, pees, reps, and sees. For points, the strongest play is prex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expresser turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and rep. For points, the strongest plays are rex and sex — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in expresser plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in expresser 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.
expresser 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.
expresser is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expresser unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are expresser and reexpress, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from expresser 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 expresser produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.