Hidden inside pledux is one standout: duplex, a six-letter play worth 16 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PDXELU, DELPUX or DELUXP and you get the same 6 letters as PLEDUX: so the words from PLEDUX listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
PLEDUX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DUPLEX (verb), to make duple, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
duplex is the highest-scoring word from pledux, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pledux produces exactly one six-letter word: duplex. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pledux. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duple and puled, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pledux produces 8 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is plex, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pledux turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due and led. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pledux 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 duplex, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pledux 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 pledux produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.