Hidden inside poxes sit expos and poxes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expos and poxes tie for the highest Scrabble score from poxes at 14 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in poxes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and poxes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are expos and poxes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in poxes produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pose. For points, the strongest play is expo — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling poxes turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sex and sox. For points, the strongest play is pox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and so. For points, the strongest plays are ex and ox — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in poxes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
poxes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for poxes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
poxes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poxes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are expos and poxes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from poxes 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 poxes produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.