What EXPENSE Means
- noun: amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
- noun: a detriment or sacrifice“at the expense of”
- verb: reduce the estimated value of something“For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
EXPENSE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as E1 X8 P3 E1 N1 S1 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In EXPENSE
36 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 (5)
4 letter words (14)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.