exemplar needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exemplar is the highest-scoring word from exemplar, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in exemplar — and it is exemplar itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exemplar produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with example. For points, the strongest plays are example and exempla — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemplar turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ampere, ampler, empale, and palmer, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel, lamer, maple, and relax. For points, the strongest plays are expel and remex — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exemplar produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exam, lame and lamp. For points, the strongest plays are apex, exam, plex, and prex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemplar turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are max and pax — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ex, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in exemplar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exemplar 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.
exemplar 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 one sense for exemplar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
exemplar is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exemplar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exemplar, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exemplar 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 exemplar produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.