Hidden inside oiltax is one standout: oxtail, a six-letter play worth 13 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble OXILAT, TAXILO or TAXLIO and you get the same 6 letters as OILTAX: so the words from OILTAX listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
OILTAX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OXTAIL (noun), the tail of an ox, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
oxtail is the highest-scoring word from oiltax, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling oiltax produces exactly one six-letter word: oxtail. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oiltax produces exactly one five-letter word: taxol. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oiltax produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tail and taxi. For points, the strongest plays are axil and taxi — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oiltax turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lit, lot, oil, and tax. For points, the strongest plays are lax, lox, tax, and tix — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oiltax. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, it, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in oiltax plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oiltax and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oxtail, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oiltax 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 oiltax produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.