exemplary needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exemplary is the highest-scoring word from exemplary, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in exemplary — and it is exemplary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplary. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exemplar, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exemplary produces 5 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 exemplary turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merely and player. For points, the strongest play is empery — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with early, expel and lamer. For points, the strongest plays are prexy, pyrex, and xylem — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exemplary produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, exam and lame. For points, the strongest plays are apex, exam, plex, and prex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemplary turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, the strongest play is pyx — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemplary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, ay and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in exemplary 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.
exemplary 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 three senses for exemplary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
exemplary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exemplary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exemplary, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exemplary 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 exemplary produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.