Hidden inside duexces is one standout: excused, a seven-letter play worth 17 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DUEXCES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXCUSED (verb, form of excuse), to apologize for, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
excused is the highest-scoring word from duexces, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling duexces produces exactly one seven-letter word: excused. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duexces. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is execs, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in duexces produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, exes and seed. For points, the strongest play is exec — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling duexces turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, due and see. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in duexces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in duexces and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is excused, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from duexces 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 duexces produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.