Hidden inside pondeux is one standout: expound, a seven-letter play worth 17 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
PONDEUX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXPOUND (verb), to explain in detail, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
expound is the highest-scoring word from pondeux, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling pondeux produces exactly one seven-letter word: expound. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pondeux produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, nope and nude. For points, the strongest play is expo — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pondeux turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end, one, and pen. For points, the strongest play is pox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pondeux. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex and no. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in pondeux plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pondeux and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expound, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pondeux 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 pondeux produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.