Hidden inside extras sit extras and taxers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extras and taxers tie for the highest Scrabble score from extras at 13 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in extras: one comes from rearranging its letters, and extras itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are extras and taxers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with extra, rates, stare, taxes, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are extra, raxes, retax, taxer, taxes, and texas — 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 extras produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are axes and sext — each 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 extras turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are axe, rax, rex, sax, sex, and tax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in extras plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in extras and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
extras 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in extras carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for extras. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
extras is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extras unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are extras and taxers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from extras 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 extras produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.