reflexes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reflexes is the highest-scoring word from reflexes, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in reflexes — and it is reflexes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reflexes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feelers and refeels, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reflexes turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flexes and reflex, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflexes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels and flees. For points, the strongest plays are lexes, rexes, and sexer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reflexes produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, exes, feel, fees, flee, free, and self. For points, the strongest play is flex — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reflexes turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, see, and sex. For points, the strongest plays are lex, rex, and sex — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflexes. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ex, 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 reflexes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
reflexes 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 reflexes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
reflexes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reflexes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reflexes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reflexes 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 reflexes produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.