Hidden inside extirpates sit extirpates and sexpartite, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 548 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extirpates and sexpartite tie for the highest Scrabble score from extirpates at 19 points. The top 10 of 548 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in extirpates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and extirpates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are extirpates and sexpartite, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling extirpates produces exactly one nine-letter word: extirpate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extirpates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are expiates, preexist, and pretexts, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in extirpates produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with experts, expires, parties, pettier, pirates, repeats, and tastier. For points, the strongest plays are experts, expiate, expires, pretext, prexies, and sexpert — 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 extirpates turns up 98 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, easier, easter, estate, expert, expire, and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are apexes, expats, expert, expire, praxes, praxis, pretax, and prexes — 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 154 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extirpates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, exist, exits, extra, pairs, parts, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are expat, paxes, and pixes — each 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 extirpates produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, arts, pair, part, past, and peas. 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 extirpates turns up 83 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extirpates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ex, is, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in extirpates plus one additional letter.
extirpates 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 extirpates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
extirpates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extirpates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are extirpates and sexpartite, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from extirpates 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 extirpates produce 548 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 14 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 98 six-letter words, 154 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.