exarch needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exarch is the highest-scoring word from exarch, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in exarch — and it is exarch itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exarch produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, each, hear, and race. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, char, and each — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exarch turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car and ear. For points, the strongest play is hex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exarch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, eh 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 exarch plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exarch 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.
exarch 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in exarch carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for exarch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
exarch is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exarch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exarch, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exarch 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 exarch produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.