Hidden inside ilexes sit exiles and ilexes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exiles and ilexes tie for the highest Scrabble score from ilexes at 13 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ilexes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ilexes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exiles and ilexes, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ilexes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exile, lexes, lexis, and silex, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ilexes produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, exes, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are exes and ilex — 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 ilexes turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, see, sex, and six. For points, the strongest plays are lex, sex, six, and xis — each worth 10 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 ilexes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and is. 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 ilexes 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.
ilexes 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 1-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 ilexes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ilexes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ilexes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exiles and ilexes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ilexes 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 ilexes produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.