complexes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
complexes is the highest-scoring word from complexes, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in complexes — and it is complexes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in complexes produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: complex, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling complexes turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expels and expose. For points, the strongest play is mpoxes — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in complexes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, comes, expel, moles, peels, poems, and poles. For points, the strongest plays are coxes, excel, execs, exome, expel, expos, and poxes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in complexes produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, cops, else, exes, lose, mole, and mops. For points, the strongest play is mpox — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling complexes turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, mop, pee, see, sex, and sox. For points, the strongest plays are cox and pox — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in complexes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, me, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ex and ox — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in complexes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in complexes 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.
complexes 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for complexes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
complexes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing complexes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is complexes, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from complexes 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 complexes produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.