unexpended needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unexpended is the highest-scoring word from unexpended, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in unexpended — and it is unexpended itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unexpended. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is expended, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unexpended produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is upended, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unexpended turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend and needed. For points, the strongest play is expend — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unexpended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended. For points, the strongest play is exude — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unexpended produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep and dude. For points, the strongest play is exed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unexpended turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end and nun. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unexpended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and up. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
unexpended 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 two senses for unexpended. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
unexpended is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unexpended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unexpended, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unexpended 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 unexpended produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.