nixy needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nixy is the highest-scoring word from nixy, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in nixy — and it is nixy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
1 five-letter word can be made using all the letters in nixy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nixy and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
nixy 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 nixy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
nixy is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nixy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nixy, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nixy 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 nixy produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 2 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.