Hidden inside fixer sit fixer and refix, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fixer and refix tie for the highest Scrabble score from fixer at 15 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in fixer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fixer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fixer and refix, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fixer produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fire. For points, the strongest plays are fire, reif, and rife — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fixer turns up 9 three-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: fix, 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 fixer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and if. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — 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 fixer 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.
fixer 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in fixer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for fixer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
fixer is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fixer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fixer and refix, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fixer 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 fixer produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.