Hidden inside exits sit exist, exits, and sixte, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exist, exits, and sixte tie for the highest Scrabble score from exits at 12 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in exits: two come from rearranging its letters, and exits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exist and exits. For points, the strongest plays are exist, exits, and sixte — 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 exits produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exit, site, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are exit 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 exits turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set, sex, sit, six, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are sex, six, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ex 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.
Swap a single tile in exits and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
exits 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 exits carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for exits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
exits is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exist, exits, and sixte, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from exits 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 exits produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.