Hidden inside except sit except and expect, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
except and expect tie for the highest Scrabble score from except at 17 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in except: one comes from rearranging its letters, and except itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: except and expect, worth 17 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in except produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exec, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling except turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee and pet. For points, the strongest plays are cep and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in except. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ex, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in except 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.
except 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 except. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
except is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing except unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are except and expect, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from except 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 except produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.