Hidden inside catex is one standout: exact, a five-letter play worth 14 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ETACX, XECAT or TACXE and you get the same 5 letters as CATEX: so the words from CATEX listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CATEX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXACT (adjective), precise, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
exact is the highest-scoring word from catex, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling catex produces exactly one five-letter word: exact. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling catex turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, tax, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are axe and tax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in catex and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exact, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from catex 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 catex produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.