perplexing needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
perplexing is the highest-scoring word from perplexing, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in perplexing — and it is perplexing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perplexing produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peeling. For points, the strongest play is perplex — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perplexing turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expire, nipple, and peeing. For points, the strongest play is expire — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perplexing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel and green. For points, the strongest plays are expel and pixel — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in perplexing produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, girl and grip. For points, the strongest plays are plex and prex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling perplexing turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, leg and lie. For points, the strongest play is pix — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in perplexing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and in. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
perplexing 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 5-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 perplexing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
perplexing is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing perplexing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is perplexing, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from perplexing 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 perplexing produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.