Hidden inside nexuses sit nexuses and unsexes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nexuses and unsexes tie for the highest Scrabble score from nexuses at 14 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nexuses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nexuses 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 nexuses and unsexes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling nexuses turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ensues and unsees, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nexuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sense and sexes. For points, the strongest plays are nexus, sexes, and unsex — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in nexuses produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, seen, sees, sues, suns, and uses. For points, the strongest play is exes — 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 nexuses turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see, sex, sue, sun, and use. For points, the strongest play is sex — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nexuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and us. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xu — 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 nexuses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nexuses 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.
nexuses 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 2-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 nexuses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
nexuses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nexuses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nexuses and unsexes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nexuses 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 nexuses produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.