exhort needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exhort is the highest-scoring word from exhort, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in exhort — and it is exhort itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exhort. If a familiar word is all you need, start with other. For points, the strongest play is oxter — 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 exhort produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero and tore. For points, the strongest play is oxer — 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 exhort turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hot, the, tho, and toe. For points, the strongest play is hex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exhort. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ex, he, ho, oh, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ex and ox — each 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 exhort 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.
exhort 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 two senses for exhort. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
exhort is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exhort unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exhort, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exhort 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 exhort produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.