exordium needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exordium is the highest-scoring word from exordium, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in exordium — and it is exordium itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exordium produces exactly one six-letter word: dormie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exordium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mixed and mixer. For points, the strongest plays are mixed and muxed — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exordium produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime, dorm and drum. For points, the strongest play is oxim — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exordium turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and mix. For points, the strongest plays are mix and mux — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exordium. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex and id. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, xi, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in exordium plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exordium 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.
exordium 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 2-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 exordium. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
exordium is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exordium unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exordium, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exordium 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 exordium produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 25 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.