Is EXEC valid in Words with Friends?

Yes. Words with Friends accepts EXEC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.

How many points is EXEC worth?

EXEC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.

What letters can be added to EXEC?

EXEC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

EXEC is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points

Yes. EXEC is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.

e1x8e1c3

PlayableEXEC · 4 letters · 13 pts Scrabble · 14 pts WWF

13points in Scrabble

14points in Words with Friends

4letters

1hook available

1 in 29,706odds of drawing this rack

Which word lists accept EXEC?

Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand	Valid
Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand	Valid
Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries	Valid
Words with FriendsZynga word list	Valid

Word power: 48 / 100

48WORD POWER

Points per tile 35%

3.25

Hooks 25%

Bingo potential 20%

Tile availability 20%

6.75%

Our own measure of how useful EXEC is to know. It scores 13 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated

Hooks for EXEC

Front hooks — 0

None.

Back hooks — 1

execs14

Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.

How EXEC scores

Scrabble e1x8e1c3 13

Words with Friends e1x8e1c4 14

Face value of the 4 tiles in EXEC, before any board multiplier.

Tiles you need

Letter	Needed	In the bag
e	2	12
x	1	1
c	1	2

Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,706.

What does EXEC mean in Scrabble?

noun

informal

An executive; also, to run a program.

Exec is clipped from executive in business and from execute in computing, and the two arrived quite separately. In a Unix system it replaces the running program with another rather than starting a second one.

How EXEC is used

Countable as a noun. Also a verb in computing.

An exec with four assistants and no diary.
The word exec is two clippings that collided.
The exec call replaces the running program.
Two execs argued about it for a fortnight.
In computing exec does not start a second process.

Written for this site: 1 meaning of EXEC and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.

Words starting with EXEC

Showing 24 of 50 words that begin with EXEC.

Words with EXEC inside

reexecute18 coexecutor21 reexecuted20 reexecutes19 unexecuted20 coexecutors22 coexecutrix29 flexecutive26 inexecrable22 inexecution20 reexecuting21 flexecutives27 inexecutable23 inexecutions21 nonexecutive24 coexecutrices26 coexecutrixes31 nonexecutives25

18 words contain EXEC in the middle. Words that start with EXEC are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.

Shorter words from the letters in EXEC

cee5 ex9 ee2

Common questions about EXEC

Is EXEC valid in Words with Friends?: Yes. Words with Friends accepts EXEC, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
How many points is EXEC worth?: EXEC is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
What does EXEC mean?: An executive; also, to run a program.
What letters can be added to EXEC?: EXEC takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.

Every word you can build from the 4 letters of EXEC:

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