Hidden inside exerts sit exerts and exsert, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exerts and exsert tie for the highest Scrabble score from exerts at 13 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in exerts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and exerts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exerts and exsert, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exerts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer and trees. For points, the strongest plays are exert, rexes, and sexer — 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 exerts produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, rest, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are exes 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 exerts turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see, set, and sex. For points, the strongest plays are rex and sex — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exerts. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ex, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in exerts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
exerts 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in exerts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for exerts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
exerts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exerts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exerts and exsert, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from exerts 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 exerts produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.