Hidden inside expels sit expels and plexes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expels and plexes tie for the highest Scrabble score from expels at 15 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in expels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and expels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expels. For points, the strongest plays are expels and plexes — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel, peels, and sleep. For points, the strongest play is expel — 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 expels produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, exes, peel, and pees. For points, the strongest play is plex — 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 expels turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, see, and sex. For points, the strongest plays are lex and sex — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expels. 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.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in expels plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in expels 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.
expels 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for expels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
expels is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are expels and plexes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from expels 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 expels produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.