Unscramble EXTORTIVE to get 131 words. EXTORTIVE itself is a real word: 19 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. VERTEX and VORTEX are the best of the shorter words, at 16 points. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from EXTORTIVE split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 12 with 6, 26 with 5, 43 with 4, 32 with 3 and 15 with 2. None has 8 letters.
VEXER and VITEX share the top score of 15 among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble EXTORTIVE. VOTER, OTTER and EXERT are the ones most people know.
Among the 4-letter words from EXTORTIVE, VEXT leads with 14 points, then EXIT and OXER on 11. OVER, TEXT and EVER are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of EXTORTIVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with EX · ending in VE · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with VERTEX and VORTEX (16 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. EXTORTIVE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXTORTIVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 131) | 101 | 130 | 94 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
29 of the 131 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: VITEX, RETOX, EXO, TEX, TORTIVE, VIRETOT, REVIE, RIEVE, VITRO, EREV, EVET, EVOE and 17 more. 7 of the 131 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TEXTER, OXER, TIX, VETTER, TETRI, OI and TE. 1 of the 131 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.