Unscramble EXPANSES and you have 138 words, EXPANSES itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, EXPANSE leads with 16 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for exspanse or peensxsa? They use the same letters as EXPANSES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from EXPANSES split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 9 with 6, 32 with 5, 49 with 4, 33 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in EXPANSES: EXPANSE, for 16 points.
PAXES tops the 5-letter words from EXPANSES at 14 points; next come SAXES and SEXES on 12. SENSE, ASPEN and SPANS will look familiar.
APEX scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble EXPANSES at 13 points, ahead of AXES and EXES on 11. SEEN, PASS and EASE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of EXPANSES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EX · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What EXPANSES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. EXPANSES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXPANSES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 138) | 113 | 138 | 106 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SAXE, SPANES, SPANE, NEPS, PENE, NEP, SEANS, SEASE, SENAS, SNEES, EANS, ENES and 13 more, 25 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SEPS, ESNES, SENES, ESNE, ESSE, NAES and SAN, 7 in all.
This word takes every letter of EXPANSES plus a single extra one.