Hidden inside exwaits sit taxwise and waxiest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WAXSITE, WESTAIX or WIXSTEA and you get the same 7 letters as EXWAITS: so the words from EXWAITS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
EXWAITS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TAXWISE and WAXIEST.
taxwise and waxiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from exwaits at 17 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in exwaits produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are taxwise and waxiest, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exwaits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exist, exits and sweat. For points, the strongest play is waxes — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exwaits produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and exit. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including exit, taxi and axes.
Unscrambling exwaits turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and its. For points, the strongest play is wax — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exwaits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in exwaits and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are taxwise and waxiest, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from exwaits 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 exwaits produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.