exegesis needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exegesis is the highest-scoring word from exegesis, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in exegesis — and it is exegesis itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exegesis turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are egises and sieges, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exegesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geese and sexes. For points, the strongest plays are sexes and sixes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exegesis produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes and sees. For points, the strongest play is exes — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exegesis turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, see, sex, and six. For points, the strongest plays are sex, six, and xis — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exegesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and is. For points, the strongest plays are ex 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.
Swap a single tile in exegesis and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
exegesis 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 1-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 exegesis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
exegesis is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exegesis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exegesis, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exegesis 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 exegesis produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.