lexicon needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lexicon is the highest-scoring word from lexicon, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lexicon — and it is lexicon itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lexicon turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exonic, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lexicon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone. For points, the strongest play is xenic — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lexicon produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, lice, line, lion, nice, and once. For points, the strongest play is oxic — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lexicon turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, lie, oil, and one. For points, the strongest play is cox — worth 12 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 lexicon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, 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 lexicon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lexicon 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.
lexicon 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 two senses for lexicon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
lexicon is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lexicon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lexicon, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lexicon 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 lexicon produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.