bollixes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bollixes is the highest-scoring word from bollixes, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bollixes — and it is bollixes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bollixes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bells, bills, boils, and boxes. For points, the strongest play is boxes — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bollixes produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bell, bill and boil. For points, the strongest play is ibex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bollixes turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with box, ill and lie. For points, the strongest play is box — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bollixes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, ex, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in bollixes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bollixes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
bollixes 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for bollixes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
bollixes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bollixes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bollixes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bollixes 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 bollixes produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.