exorcise needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exorcise is the highest-scoring word from exorcise, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in exorcise — and it is exorcise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exorcise turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sexier. For points, the strongest play is excise — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exorcise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cries, rices, and score. For points, the strongest plays are coxes, execs, and xeric — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exorcise produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, exes, ices, rice, rise, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are exec and oxic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exorcise turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, see, sex, sir, six, and sox. For points, the strongest play is cox — worth 12 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 exorcise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, 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 exorcise 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.
exorcise 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 one sense for exorcise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
exorcise is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exorcise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exorcise, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exorcise 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 exorcise produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.