Hidden inside oxime sit moxie and oxime, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moxie and oxime tie for the highest Scrabble score from oxime at 14 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in oxime: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oxime itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moxie and oxime, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling oxime produces exactly one four-letter word: oxim. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oxime turns up 3 three-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oxime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and me. 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 oxime and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
oxime 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 oxime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
oxime is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oxime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moxie and oxime, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oxime 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 oxime produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 3 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.