exclaiming needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 289 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exclaiming is the highest-scoring word from exclaiming, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 289 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in exclaiming — and it is exclaiming itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exclaiming produces exactly one nine-letter word: climaxing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exclaiming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claiming and emailing. For points, the strongest play is claiming — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exclaiming produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calming, ceiling, imagine, and mailing. For points, the strongest play is exclaim — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exclaiming turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, mingle, and mixing. For points, the strongest play is climax — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exclaiming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel and angle. For points, the strongest play is cimex — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exclaiming produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, cage and calm. For points, the strongest plays are calx, exam, maxi, and minx — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exclaiming turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and can. For points, the strongest plays are max and mix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exclaiming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
exclaiming 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for exclaiming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
exclaiming is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exclaiming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exclaiming, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exclaiming 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 exclaiming produce 289 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.