Unscramble EXPRESSO and you have 139 words, EXPRESSO itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. EXPRESSO has 1 anagram here, EXPOSERS, scoring 17 like EXPRESSO itself. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from EXPRESSO by length: 2 with 8 letters, 6 with 7, 16 with 6, 35 with 5, 38 with 4, 29 with 3 and 13 with 2.
EXPOS and POXES are the top 5-letter words from EXPRESSO, 14 points each. PRESS, ROSES and PEERS will look familiar.
EXPO and PREX share the top score of 13 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble EXPRESSO. ROSE, PEER and SEES are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of EXPRESSO but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EX · ending in SO · all 8-letter words
EXPRESSO first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept EXPRESSO, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXPRESSO itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 139) | 123 | 139 | 112 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 16 of them: SOREXES, SOREX, EXO, POSSER, PRESES, SPERSE, SPEOS, POSS, SOREES, PRE, SOREE, ERES and 4 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: SEXERS, OXERS, SEXER, OXER, PERES, PERE, SEPS, POS, RESES, ESSE and PO.
These 4 words take every letter of EXPRESSO plus a single extra one.