Hidden inside experts sit experts and sexpert, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PXTREES, EXSTREP or TXPERES and you get the same 7 letters as EXPERTS: so the words from EXPERTS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
experts and sexpert tie for the highest Scrabble score from experts at 16 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in experts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and experts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with experts. For points, the strongest plays are experts and sexpert — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in experts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer and trees. For points, the strongest plays are exert, rexes, and sexer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in experts produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, pees and pets. For points, the strongest play is prex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling experts turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, per and pet. For points, the strongest plays are rex and sex — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in experts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in experts and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
experts 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 experts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
experts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing experts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are experts and sexpert, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from experts 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 experts produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.