Hidden inside pendex is one standout: expend, a six-letter play worth 16 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PENDEX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXPEND (verb), to use up, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
expend is the highest-scoring word from pendex, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pendex produces exactly one six-letter word: expend. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in pendex plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pendex 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 expend, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pendex 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 pendex produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.