polymyxin needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 26 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polymyxin is the highest-scoring word from polymyxin, worth 26 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in polymyxin — and it is polymyxin itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 26 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polymyxin produces exactly one seven-letter word: polynyi. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polymyxin produces exactly one six-letter word: mopily. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in polymyxin produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limo, lion, only, and pony. For points, the strongest plays are pixy and poxy — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polymyxin turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip, mix and mop. For points, the strongest play is pyx — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polymyxin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, my and no. For points, the strongest plays are ox and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in polymyxin plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in polymyxin and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
polymyxin 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for polymyxin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 26 points on a Scrabble board:
polymyxin is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polymyxin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is polymyxin, worth 26 points in Scrabble, and no other word from polymyxin 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 polymyxin produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.