exemplars needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 337 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exemplars is the highest-scoring word from exemplars, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 337 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in exemplars — and it is exemplars itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with examples. For points, the strongest plays are examples and exemplar — each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exemplars produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with example and relaxes. For points, the strongest plays are example and exempla — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemplars turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, expels and maples. For points, 5 words tie at 15 points, including expels, apexes and plexes.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, exams and expel. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including exams, expel and maxes.
Rearranging the letters in exemplars produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, arms and lame. For points, the strongest plays are apex, plex, prex, and exam — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemplars turns up 62 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, ex, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in exemplars and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
exemplars 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 exemplars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
exemplars is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exemplars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exemplars, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exemplars 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 exemplars produce 337 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.