Hidden inside oximes sit moxies and oximes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moxies and oximes tie for the highest Scrabble score from oximes at 15 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in oximes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oximes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moxies and oximes, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oximes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mixes. For points, the strongest plays are mixes, moxie, oxime, oxims, and sixmo — each 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 oximes produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with some. For points, the strongest play is oxim — 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 oximes turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mix, sex, six, and sox. For points, the strongest play is mix — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oximes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, is, me, and so. 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.
Swap a single tile in oximes 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.
oximes 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 1-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 oximes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
oximes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oximes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moxies and oximes, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oximes 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 oximes produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.