exceptions needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 450 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exceptions is the highest-scoring word from exceptions, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 450 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in exceptions — and it is exceptions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exceptions turns up 3 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: exception, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exceptions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sixpence, 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 exceptions produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with excites, expects, notices, section, and sixteen. For points, the strongest plays are excepts and expects — each 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 exceptions turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copies, except, excite, exotic, expect, expose, and nicest. 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 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exceptions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, exist, exits, niece, and noise. For points, the strongest plays are coxes, execs, expos, pixes, poxes, 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 exceptions produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, next, nice, nope, nose, and note. For points, the strongest plays are oxic, 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 exceptions turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, ice, its, net, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cox, 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exceptions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in, is, it, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in exceptions plus one additional letter.
exceptions 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 3-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 exceptions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
exceptions is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exceptions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exceptions, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exceptions 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 exceptions produce 450 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.