nonexempt needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonexempt is the highest-scoring word from nonexempt, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in nonexempt — and it is nonexempt itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonexempt produces exactly one eight-letter word: exponent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonexempt turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exempt, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonexempt. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exome, 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 nonexempt produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, next, none, nope, note, open, and poem. For points, the strongest play is mpox — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nonexempt turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met, mop, net, not, one, and pee. For points, the strongest play is pox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonexempt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, me, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ex and ox — 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 nonexempt plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nonexempt 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.
nonexempt 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 4-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 nonexempt. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
nonexempt is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonexempt unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nonexempt, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nonexempt 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 nonexempt produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.