exercises needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exercises is the highest-scoring word from exercises, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in exercises — and it is exercises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exercises produces exactly one eight-letter word: exercise. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in exercises produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is excises, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exercises turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, recess, series, and sexier. For points, the strongest plays are excess and excise — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exercises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, rises, and sexes. For points, the strongest plays are execs and xeric — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exercises produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, ices, rice, rise, sees, and sirs. For points, the strongest play is exec — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exercises turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, see, sex, sir, and six. For points, the strongest plays are rex, sex, six, and xis — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exercises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and is. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in exercises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exercises 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.
exercises 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 eleven senses for exercises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
exercises is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exercises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exercises, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exercises 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 exercises produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.