Hidden inside excdeat is one standout: exacted, a seven-letter play worth 17 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
EXCDEAT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXACTED (verb), < EXACT, to force the payment or yielding of, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
exacted is the highest-scoring word from excdeat, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling excdeat produces exactly one seven-letter word: exacted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in excdeat produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date. For points, the strongest play is exec — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling excdeat turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate and cat. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excdeat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in excdeat 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 exacted, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from excdeat 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 excdeat produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.