exacerbate needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exacerbate is the highest-scoring word from exacerbate, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in exacerbate — and it is exacerbate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exacerbate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is execrate, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exacerbate produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exacter, excreta, and excrete, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exacerbate turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with create. For points, the strongest play is exacta — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exacerbate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, exact, extra, and react. For points, the strongest play is xebec — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exacerbate produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, bare, bear, beat, beer, brat, and care. For points, the strongest play is exec — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exacerbate turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bee. For points, the strongest plays are axe, rax, rex, and tax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exacerbate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in exacerbate plus one additional letter.
exacerbate 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for exacerbate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
exacerbate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exacerbate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exacerbate, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exacerbate 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 exacerbate produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.