pixy needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pixy is the highest-scoring word from pixy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in pixy — and it is pixy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pixy turns up 3 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pyx, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pixy. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is xi, 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 pixy and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
pixy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in pixy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for pixy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
pixy is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pixy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pixy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pixy 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 pixy produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 3 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.