Unscramble EXPLORES and you have 189 words, EXPLORES itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, EXPLORE, EXPOSER and PLEXORS lead with 16 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for exerolps or lperoxse? They use the same letters as EXPLORES, 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.
Words from EXPLORES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 16 with 6, 52 with 5, 59 with 4, 41 with 3 and 15 with 2.
EXPEL, EXPOS and POXES are the top 5-letter words from EXPLORES, 14 points each. SLEEP, ROLES and SLOPE will look familiar.
EXPO, PLEX and PREX share the top score of 13 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble EXPLORES. ROLE, ROSE and LOSE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of EXPLORES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EX · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What EXPLORES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. EXPLORES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXPLORES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 189) | 161 | 189 | 151 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
28 of the 189 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SOREX, EXO, ELOPS, LEEPS, LERPS, OLPES, LEEP, LEPS, LERP, OLPE, PELS, EORLS and 16 more. 10 of the 189 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PLEXES, PLEX, OXERS, SEXER, OXER, PERES, PERE, POS, PO and LOR.
These 2 words take every letter of EXPLORES plus a single extra one.