convex needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
convex is the highest-scoring word from convex, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in convex — and it is convex itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convex produces exactly one five-letter word: coven. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in convex produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, once, and oven. For points, the strongest plays are exon and oxen — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling convex turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con and one. For points, the strongest plays are vex and vox — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, no, and on. 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.
Swap a single tile in convex and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
convex 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 convex. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
convex is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing convex unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is convex, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from convex 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 convex produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.