exogamous needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exogamous is the highest-scoring word from exogamous, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in exogamous — and it is exogamous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exogamous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, exams and games. For points, the strongest plays are exams, maxes, moxas, and muxes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exogamous produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, egos and exam. For points, the strongest plays are exam and moxa — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exogamous turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ego. For points, the strongest plays are max and mux — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exogamous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
exogamous 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 3-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 exogamous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
exogamous is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exogamous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exogamous, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exogamous 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 exogamous produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.