examine needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
examine is the highest-scoring word from examine, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in examine — and it is examine itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling examine turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are axemen and examen, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examine. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is axmen, 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 examine produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, exam, main, mean, mine, and name. For points, the strongest plays are exam, maxi, and minx — each 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 examine turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, man, max, men, and mix. For points, the strongest plays are max and mix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, ex, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ax, 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 examine and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
examine 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 2-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 examine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
examine is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing examine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is examine, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from examine 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 examine produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.