anxieties needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
anxieties is the highest-scoring word from anxieties, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in anxieties — and it is anxieties itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in anxieties produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sixteen. For points, the strongest plays are antisex, sextain, and sixteen — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling anxieties turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taxies. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including taxies, axites and exines.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anxieties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, exist and exits. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including exist, exits and taxes.
Rearranging the letters in anxieties produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, ease and east. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including exes, exit and next.
Unscrambling anxieties turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including sex, six and tax.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in anxieties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in anxieties 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.
anxieties 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 1-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 anxieties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
anxieties is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing anxieties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is anxieties, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from anxieties 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 anxieties produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.