poleaxes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poleaxes is the highest-scoring word from poleaxes, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in poleaxes — and it is poleaxes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poleaxes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exposal and poleaxe, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poleaxes turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asleep, expels, expose, and please. For points, 5 words tie at 15 points, including expels, expose and apexes.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poleaxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with expel, leaps and lease. For points, the strongest plays are expel, expos, paxes, and poxes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poleaxes produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes and ease. For points, the strongest plays are apex, expo, and plex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poleaxes turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, lap and pal. For points, the strongest plays are pax and pox — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poleaxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ex, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and ox — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in poleaxes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in poleaxes 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.
poleaxes 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.
poleaxes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poleaxes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is poleaxes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from poleaxes 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 poleaxes produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.