reflexives needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reflexives is the highest-scoring word from reflexives, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in reflexives — and it is reflexives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reflexives produces exactly one nine-letter word: reflexive. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 22 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflexives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relieves. For points, the strongest play is reflexes — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reflexives produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reliefs and relieve. For points, the strongest play is refixes — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reflexives turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eviler, fevers and livers. For points, 6 words tie at 16 points, including fixers, flexes and reflex.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflexives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, feels and fever. For points, 6 words tie at 15 points, including fixes, fixer and refix.
Rearranging the letters in reflexives produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, ever and eves. For points, the strongest play is flex — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reflexives turns up 43 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflexives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
reflexives 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 reflexives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
reflexives is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reflexives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reflexives, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reflexives 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 reflexives produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.