indexicals needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 422 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indexicals is the highest-scoring word from indexicals, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 422 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in indexicals — and it is indexicals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indexicals produces exactly one nine-letter word: indexical. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indexicals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alcidine, laicised, and sciaenid, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in indexicals produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, candles, and denials. For points, the strongest play is exscind — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indexicals turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, candle and cleans. For points, 5 words tie at 15 points, including alexic, axenic and calxes.
There are 115 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indexicals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aisle and alien. For points, the strongest plays are calix and xenic — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in indexicals produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids and cans. For points, the strongest play is calx — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indexicals turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and and. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indexicals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
indexicals 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 indexicals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
indexicals is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indexicals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indexicals, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from indexicals 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 indexicals produce 422 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 115 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.