Hidden inside excepts sit excepts and expects, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
excepts and expects tie for the highest Scrabble score from excepts at 18 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in excepts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and excepts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expects. 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 excepts turns up 3 six-letter words. 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.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excepts. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is execs, 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 excepts produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, pees, pets, and step. For points, the strongest play 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 excepts turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee, pet, see, set, and sex. For points, the strongest play is sex — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excepts. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in excepts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in excepts 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.
excepts 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 excepts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
excepts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing excepts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are excepts and expects, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from excepts 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 excepts produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.