exorcises needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exorcises is the highest-scoring word from exorcises, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in exorcises — and it is exorcises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exorcises produces exactly one eight-letter word: exorcise. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exorcises produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is excises, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exorcises turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, recess, scores, series, and sexier. For points, the strongest plays are excess and excise — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exorcises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cries, cross, rices, rises, roses, 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 exorcises produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, exes, ices, rice, rise, rose, and sees. 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 exorcises turns up 37 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 exorcises. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in exorcises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exorcises and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
exorcises 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 exorcises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
exorcises is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exorcises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exorcises, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exorcises 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 exorcises produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.