dexterous needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 310 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dexterous is the highest-scoring word from dexterous, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 310 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dexterous — and it is dexterous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dexterous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tuxedoes. For points, the strongest plays are dextrose, dextrous, extrudes, and tuxedoes — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dexterous produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tuxedos. For points, the strongest plays are detoxes, dexters, extrude, redoxes, and tuxedos — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dexterous turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, rested, routes, rudest, sorted, and tuxedo. For points, the strongest plays are dexter, dextro, exodus, exudes, sexted, and tuxedo — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dexterous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, outer, route, steer, store, tours, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are desex, detox, dexes, doxes, exude, redox, redux, and sexed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dexterous produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, does, dots, dust, exes, ours, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are doux and exed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dexterous turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due, our, out, red, rod, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dex, dox, and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dexterous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in dexterous and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
dexterous is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for dexterous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
dexterous is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dexterous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dexterous, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dexterous earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in dexterous produce 310 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.