proximity needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
proximity is the highest-scoring word from proximity, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in proximity — and it is proximity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling proximity produces exactly one six-letter word: import. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proximity. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is proxy, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in proximity produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mixt, pity, prom, riot, trim, and trip. For points, the strongest plays are pixy and poxy — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling proximity turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mix, mop, pit, pot, pro, rip, and tip. For points, the strongest play is pyx — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in proximity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, my, or, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ox and xi — 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 proximity 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.
proximity 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 three senses for proximity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
proximity is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing proximity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is proximity, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from proximity 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 proximity produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.