Hidden inside exertions sit exertions and exsertion, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 347 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exertions and exsertion tie for the highest Scrabble score from exertions at 16 points. The top 10 of 347 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in exertions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and exertions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exertions and exsertion, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exertions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exertion, extensor, and intersex, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exertions produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries and sixteen. For points, the strongest plays are externs, rexines, sixteen, and toxines — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exertions turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, resent, senior, sexier, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are exerts, exines, exsert, extern, oxters, rexine, sexier, sexton, toxine, and toxins — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exertions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, exist, exits, irons, noise, notes, and rents. For points, the strongest plays are exert, exine, exist, exits, exons, nexts, nixes, oxers, oxter, rexes, sexer, sexto, sixer, sixte, and toxin — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exertions produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, exit, into, iron, nest, nets, and next. For points, the strongest plays are exes, exit, exon, next, nixe, oxen, oxer, oxes, and sext — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exertions turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, nor, not, one, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are nix, rex, sex, six, sox, tix, and xis — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exertions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in, is, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in exertions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exertions 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.
exertions 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 1-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 exertions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
exertions is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exertions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exertions and exsertion, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from exertions 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 exertions produce 347 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.