Hidden inside exults sit exults and luxest, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exults and luxest tie for the highest Scrabble score from exults at 13 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in exults: one comes from rearranging its letters, and exults itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exults and luxest, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exults. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tuxes. For points, the strongest plays are exult, luxes, and tuxes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exults produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets. For points, the strongest plays are luxe and sext — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exults turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, set and sex. For points, the strongest plays are lex, lux, sex, and tux — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in exults plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exults and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
exults 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 two senses for exults. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
exults is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exults unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exults and luxest, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from exults 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 exults produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.