dexterity needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dexterity is the highest-scoring word from dexterity, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dexterity — and it is dexterity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dexterity turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with texted. For points, the strongest plays are dexter, exited, and texted — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dexterity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dirty, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest play is dexie — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dexterity produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet, dirt, edit, exit, ride, and text. For points, the strongest play is dexy — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dexterity turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dry, dye, eye, red, rid, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dexterity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ex 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 dexterity 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.
dexterity 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 dexterity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
dexterity is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dexterity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dexterity, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dexterity 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 dexterity produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.