Hidden inside amex is one standout: exam, a four-letter play worth 13 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble XEAM, MAEX or MXEA and you get the same 4 letters as AMEX: so the words from AMEX listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
AMEX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXAM (noun), an examination, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
exam is the highest-scoring word from amex, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling amex produces exactly one four-letter word: exam. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in amex and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exam, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from amex 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 amex produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 3 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.