exemption 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, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exemption is the highest-scoring word from exemption, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in exemption — and it is exemption itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemption produces exactly one eight-letter word: xenotime. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exemption produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epitome and pimento, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemption turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exempt, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point. For points, the strongest plays are exome, moxie, and oxime — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exemption produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exit, into and item. For points, the strongest play is mpox — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exemption turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and mix. For points, the strongest plays are mix, pix, and pox — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exemption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in and it. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in exemption plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exemption 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.
exemption 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 three senses for exemption. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
exemption is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exemption unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exemption, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exemption 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 exemption produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.