excludes 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, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
excludes is the highest-scoring word from excludes, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in excludes — and it is excludes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in excludes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with excused. For points, the strongest plays are exclude and excused — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling excludes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with excuse and seduce. For points, the strongest plays are excels and excuse — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in excludes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clues. For points, the strongest plays are culex, excel, and execs — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in excludes produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, cues and else. For points, the strongest play is exec — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling excludes turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, due and led. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in excludes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in excludes 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.
excludes 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for excludes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
excludes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing excludes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is excludes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from excludes 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 excludes produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.