expunges needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expunges is the highest-scoring word from expunges, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in expunges — and it is expunges itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expunges produces exactly one seven-letter word: expunge. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling expunges produces exactly one six-letter word: unpegs. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expunges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes and penes. For points, the strongest plays are nexus and unsex — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in expunges produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, gene, guns, pees, pens, seen, and spun. For points, the strongest play is exes — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expunges turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, gun, pee, pen, see, sex, and sue. For points, the strongest play is sex — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expunges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ex 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in expunges plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in expunges and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
expunges 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 4-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 expunges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
expunges is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expunges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expunges, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expunges 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 expunges produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.