Hidden inside exalts sit exalts and laxest, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exalts and laxest tie for the highest Scrabble score from exalts at 13 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in exalts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and exalts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exalts and laxest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exalts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with least, steal, tales, and taxes. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including taxes, axels and axles.
Rearranging the letters in exalts produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and last. For points, the strongest plays are axel, axes, axle, and sext — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exalts turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and let. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including sex, tax and axe.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exalts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in exalts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exalts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
exalts 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 four senses for exalts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
exalts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exalts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exalts and laxest, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from exalts 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 exalts produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.