Hidden inside indexer sit indexer and reindex, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble XREINED, EINEDRX or DEENRXI and you get the same 7 letters as INDEXER: so the words from INDEXER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
indexer and reindex tie for the highest Scrabble score from indexer at 15 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in indexer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indexer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are indexer and reindex, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indexer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner. For points, the strongest plays are dexie, index, and nixed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in indexer produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dine and need. For points, the strongest play is exed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indexer turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indexer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in indexer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in indexer and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
indexer 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 indexer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
indexer is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indexer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are indexer and reindex, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indexer 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 indexer produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.