polymyxins needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 27 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polymyxins is the highest-scoring word from polymyxins, worth 27 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in polymyxins — and it is polymyxins itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 27 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polymyxins produces exactly one nine-letter word: polymyxin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 26 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polymyxins 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.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polymyxins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imply, limos, lions, and spoil. For points, the strongest play is pyxis — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in polymyxins produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limo, lion and lips. For points, the strongest plays are pixy and poxy — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polymyxins turns up 57 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polymyxins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and my. For points, the strongest plays are ox and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
polymyxins 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 polymyxins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 27 points on a Scrabble board:
polymyxins is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polymyxins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is polymyxins, worth 27 points in Scrabble, and no other word from polymyxins 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 polymyxins produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.