Hidden inside extra sit extra, retax, and taxer, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extra, retax, and taxer tie for the highest Scrabble score from extra at 12 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in extra: two come from rearranging its letters, and extra itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with extra. For points, the strongest plays are extra, retax, and taxer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extra turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are axe, rax, rex, and tax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extra. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in extra and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
extra 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 extra carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for extra. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
extra is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extra unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are extra, retax, and taxer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from extra 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 extra produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.