exceptional needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 678 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exceptional is the highest-scoring word from exceptional, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 678 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in exceptional — and it is exceptional itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exceptional turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exception. For points, the strongest plays are exception and explicate — each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exceptional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with election and patience. For points, the strongest play is cineplex — worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exceptional produces 61 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with explain and exploit. For points, the strongest play is exciple — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exceptional turns up 113 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, client, except, excite, exotic, expect, and locate. For points, the strongest plays are except and expect — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 158 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exceptional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alone, clean, clone, eaten, elect, and exact. For points, the strongest plays are calix, coxae, coxal, exact, excel, expat, expel, oxlip, pixel, toxic, and xenic — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exceptional produces 186 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, late, lean, leap, lent, lice, and line. For points, the strongest plays are apex, oxic, plex, calx, coax, coxa, exec, and expo — each 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 exceptional turns up 108 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ape, ate, can, cap, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are cox, pax, pix, and pox — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exceptional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, ex, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
exceptional 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for exceptional. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
exceptional is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exceptional unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exceptional, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exceptional 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 exceptional produce 678 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 61 seven-letter words, 113 six-letter words, 158 five-letter words, 186 four-letter words, 108 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.