extirpate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extirpate is the highest-scoring word from extirpate, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in extirpate — and it is extirpate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extirpate produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier. For points, the strongest plays are expiate and pretext — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling extirpate turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expert, expire, pirate, and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are expert, expire, and pretax — each worth 15 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 extirpate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with extra and treat. For points, the strongest play is expat — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in extirpate produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exit, pair, part, rate, tape, taxi, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are apex 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 extirpate turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are pax and pix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extirpate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ex, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in extirpate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in extirpate 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.
extirpate 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 three senses for extirpate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
extirpate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extirpate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is extirpate, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extirpate 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 extirpate produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.