exhibits needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exhibits is the highest-scoring word from exhibits, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in exhibits — and it is exhibits itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exhibits produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: exhibit, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exhibits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bites, exist, exits, and sixth. For points, the strongest play is sixth — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exhibits produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets and bite. For points, the strongest play is ibex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exhibits turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit and his. For points, the strongest play is hex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exhibits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in exhibits and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
exhibits 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 exhibits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for exhibits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
exhibits is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exhibits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exhibits, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exhibits 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 exhibits produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.