Hidden inside exorcist sit excitors and exorcist, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
excitors and exorcist tie for the highest Scrabble score from exorcist at 17 points. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in exorcist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and exorcist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are excitors and exorcist, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in exorcist produces 5 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 coexist, excitor, exotics, and xerotic, each 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 exorcist turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erotic, exotic, and sector. For points, the strongest plays are cortex, exotic, and toxics — 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in exorcist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cries, exist, exits, rices, riots, and score. For points, the strongest plays are coxes, toxic, 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 exorcist produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost, exit, ices, rest, rice, and riot. For points, the strongest play is oxic — 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 exorcist turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, set, sex, sir, sit, and six. For points, the strongest play is cox — worth 12 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 exorcist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, is, it, or, so, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in exorcist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in exorcist 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.
exorcist 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 two senses for exorcist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
exorcist is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing exorcist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are excitors and exorcist, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from exorcist 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 exorcist produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.