affixes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
affixes is the highest-scoring word from affixes, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in affixes — and it is affixes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in affixes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faxes and fixes. For points, the strongest play is affix — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in affixes produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with safe. For points, the strongest plays are axes and axis — 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 affixes turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fax, fix, sea, sex, and six. For points, the strongest plays are fax and fix — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in affixes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ex, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ax, 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in affixes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in affixes 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.
affixes 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 affixes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for affixes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
affixes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing affixes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is affixes, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from affixes 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 affixes produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.