exertion needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exertion is the highest-scoring word from exertion, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in exertion — and it is exertion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling exertion turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire. For points, the strongest plays are extern, rexine, and toxine — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are exert, exine, oxter, and toxin — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exertion produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exit, into, iron, next, note, rent, and riot. For points, the strongest plays are exit, exon, next, nixe, oxen, and oxer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling exertion turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, nor, not, one, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are nix, rex, and tix — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, 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 exertion 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.
exertion 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 exertion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
exertion is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exertion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exertion, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from exertion 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 exertion produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.