poleaxed needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poleaxed is the highest-scoring word from poleaxed, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in poleaxed — and it is poleaxed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poleaxed produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: explode, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poleaxed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel. For points, the strongest play is poxed — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poleaxed produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deal, deep and lead. For points, the strongest plays are apex, expo, and plex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poleaxed turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lad and lap. For points, the strongest plays are pax and pox — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poleaxed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, do, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and ox — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in poleaxed and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
poleaxed 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
poleaxed is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poleaxed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is poleaxed, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from poleaxed 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 poleaxed produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.