138 words come out when you unscramble EXPEDIENT, starting with EXPEDIENT itself: 19 in Scrabble, 21 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is EXPEDITE, 18 points. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from EXPEDIENT split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 13 with 6, 19 with 5, 48 with 4, 40 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Just 1 of the 8-letter words in EXPEDIENT: EXPEDITE, for 18 points.
Among the 4-letter words from EXPEDIENT, EXED leads with 12 points, then EXIT and NEXT on 11. NEED, TEEN and EDIT are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of EXPEDIENT for another and you can spell these 5 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with EX · ending in NT · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by EXPEDITE (18 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept EXPEDIENT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXPEDIENT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 138) | 103 | 138 | 94 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
35 of the 138 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DENTEX, EXTINE, TEX, DEEPIE, PENED, PIEND, EIDENT, NEPIT, PENIE, TEENED, DENET, PENE and 23 more. 9 of the 138 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: EXED, XED, TIX, PEDI, DEP, IDENT, DENI, TEIN and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of EXPEDIENT and one more.