What EXPENDS Means
EXPENDS is a form of EXPEND, which means:
- verb: pay out“spend money”
- verb: use up (resources or materials)“this car consumes a lot of gas”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EXPENDS 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 E1 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.
Words Made From The Letters In EXPENDS
73 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 (1)
5 letter words (17)
4 letter words (29)
DEENDEEPDEESDENEDENSENDSENESESNEEXEDEXESNEDSNEEDNEEPNEPSPEDSPEEDPEENPEESPENDPENEPENSSEEDSEENSEEPSENDSENESNEDSNEESPED
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.