extended needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extended is the highest-scoring word from extended, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in extended — and it is extended itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extended turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with extend, needed, and tended. For points, the strongest play is extend — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling extended produces exactly one five-letter word: ended. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extended produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, need, next, teen, and tend. For points, the strongest play is exed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling extended turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extended. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ex, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in extended 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.
extended 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for extended. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
extended is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is extended, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extended 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 extended produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.