exempts needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exempts is the highest-scoring word from exempts, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in exempts — and it is exempts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exempts produces exactly one six-letter word: exempt. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exempts produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, meet and pees. For points, the strongest plays are exes and sext — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exempts turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee and pet. For points, the strongest play is sex — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in exempts and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
exempts 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 four senses for exempts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
exempts is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exempts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exempts, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exempts 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 exempts produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.