What EXPANDS Means
EXPANDS is a form of EXPAND, which means:
- verb: extend in one or more directions“The dough expands”
- verb: become larger in size or volume or quantity“his business expanded rapidly”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EXPANDS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 P3 A1 N1 D2 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 67 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of EXPANDS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In EXPANDS
122 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (2)
5 letter words (21)
4 letter words (43)
3 letter words (40)
2 letter words (16)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.