lexicographer needs no unscrambling at all — the thirteen-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 28 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 836 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lexicographer is the highest-scoring word from lexicographer, worth 28 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 836 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one thirteen-letter word uses the letters in lexicographer — and it is lexicographer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 28 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lexicographer produces exactly one eleven-letter word: xerographic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 26 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lexicographer turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is xerophile, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lexicographer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exoergic, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lexicographer produces 74 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheaper, clearer and earlier. For points, the strongest play is xerarch — worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lexicographer turns up 150 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career, cereal and charge. For points, the strongest play is exarch — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 197 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lexicographer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, peace and peach. For points, the strongest play is phlox — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lexicographer produces 221 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, cage and cape. For points, the strongest play is hoax — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lexicographer turns up 133 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and air. For points, the strongest play is hex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lexicographer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, eh and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 fourteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in lexicographer plus one additional letter.
lexicographer 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 lexicographer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 28 points on a Scrabble board:
lexicographer is the only thirteen-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lexicographer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lexicographer, worth 28 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lexicographer 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 lexicographer produce 836 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 thirteen-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 74 seven-letter words, 150 six-letter words, 197 five-letter words, 221 four-letter words, 133 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.