reflexive needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reflexive is the highest-scoring word from reflexive, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reflexive — and it is reflexive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reflexive produces exactly one seven-letter word: relieve. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reflexive turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eviler and relief. For points, the strongest play is reflex — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflexive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fever, liver, and viler. For points, the strongest plays are fixer, refix, vexer, and vexil — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reflexive produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, evil and feel. For points, the strongest play is flex — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reflexive turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, eve and fee. For points, the strongest plays are fix and vex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflexive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and if. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in reflexive plus one additional letter.
reflexive 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 three senses for reflexive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
reflexive is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reflexive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reflexive, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reflexive 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 reflexive produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 16 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.